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词汇 earthling
释义 earthling
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈɜːθ.lɪŋ/ us /ˈɝːθ.lɪŋ/
in stories, a human being, especially when talked to or talked about by a creature from another planet(尤指故事中外星人对人类的称呼)地球人
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Humans, apes & monkeys
anthropo-
anthropoid
ape
baboon
bonobo
hominid
hominin
homo
Homo sapiens
human
lemur
loris
macaque
mandrill
mankind
ring-tailed lemur
sapient
silverback
simian
spider monkey
Examples from literature

Analysis of their atmosphere might show a great hazard to earthlings, one making it impossible to land or requiring years of research to overcome. 
How can we know the actual number of earthlings that are sceptics? 
If the God of these earthlings bothers not about them, why should they trouble about God? 
It is a bright day, and the Martian is aware of a head-ache brought on by the effort to understand the ways of earthlings, and therefore decides to drive through the city streets. 
Later analysis would tell whether earthlings would need oxygen-helmet suits such as we plan to use on the moon. 

Examples of earthling


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The disguise could be a way to try to communicate more easily with the earthlings.
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A long period of peace has deprived the earthlings of their instinct to wage war.
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Earthlings, alone and dying on the toxic planet, began to question the humanity of the colonists.
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The writer found this especially true for the former of the two features, in which the earthling protagonist supplies his alien cohort with candy.
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Successfully knocking over earthlings yields coins that are required to complete the goals set in each level.
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Via thought helmets the invaders extract information from them about their fellow earthlings to further the war of conquest.
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Earthlings true to form attacked them on sight out of fear.
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That he can actually start living his life as an actual earthling.
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Perhaps they don't create quite enough deeply funny earthlings to go around, but a thoroughly mean-spirited big-budget movie is always a treasurable rarity.
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Most of them are indistinguishable from earthlings, while others differ slightly (for example, they might have grey skin or can bear extremely cold or hot temperatures) but still very similar.
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