名詞 ethnic:

1. a person who is a member of an ethnic group

形容詞 ethnic:

1. denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people
   同義詞：cultural, ethnical
2. not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam
   同義詞：heathen, heathenish, pagan

1. The bringing of people of different racial or ethnic groups into unrestricted and equal association, as in society or an organization; desegregation.
   種族或宗教融合在社會或組織中，使不同的種族或宗教派別的人處于無限制的平等的關(guān)系中; 取消種族隔離
2. A neighborhood of fine homes; an ethnic neighborhood.
   擁有美好家園的小區(qū); 民族居住區(qū)
3. Ethnic enclaves in a large city.
   被圍于大城市之中的少數(shù)民族
4. A member of the predominant ethnic group of Iran.
   法爾西人伊朗主要種族的一員

eth.nic

adj.（形容詞）

Of or relating to sizable groups of people sharing a common and distinctive racial, national, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage.
種族的，人種的：屬于或關(guān)于相當(dāng)大規(guī)模人的群體的，群體中的成員擁有共同的和獨(dú)特的種族的、民族的、宗教的、語言的或文化的遺產(chǎn)
Being a member of a particular ethnic group.
種族一員的：作為一特定種族集團(tuán)中的成員的
Of, relating to, or distinctive of members of such a group:
種族風(fēng)格的：屬于，關(guān)于或區(qū)別于這樣一個集團(tuán)中的成員的：
例句：
ethnic restaurants; ethnic art.
民族風(fēng)味的飯館；民族藝術(shù)

Relating to a people not Christian or Jewish; heathen.
異教徒的：關(guān)于非基督教徒或猶太教徒的人的；異教徒的
n.（名詞）
A member of a particular ethnic group, especially one who maintains the language or customs of the group.
具有該種族語言、風(fēng)俗的成員：某一特定種族集團(tuán)中的一員，尤指保持著這一集團(tuán)的語言或風(fēng)俗習(xí)慣的成員

來源：
Middle English [heathen]
中古英語 [異教徒]
from Late Latin ethnicus
源自 后期拉丁語 ethnicus
from Greek ethnikos
源自 希臘語 ethnikos
from ethnos [people, nation] * see s(w)e-
源自 ethnos [民族，國家] *參見 s(w)e-

<注釋>When in a Middle English text written before 400it is said that a part of a temple fell down and .mad a gret distruccione of ethnykis,.one wonders why ethnics were singled out for death.The wordethnic in this context, however, means .gentile,. coming as it does from the Greek adjectiveethnikos, meaning .national, foreign, gentile..The adjective is derived from the nounethnos, .people, nation, foreign people,. that in the plural phraseta ethnô meant .foreign nations.. In translating the Hebrew Bible into Greek,this phrase was used for Hebrewgôyom, .gentiles.; hence the sense of the noun in the Middle English quotation.The nounethnic in this sense or the related sense .heathen. is not recorded after 728, although the related adjective sense is still used. But probably under the influence of other words going back to Greekethnos, such asethnography and ethnology, the adjectiveethnic broadened in meaning in the 9th century. After this broadeningthe noun sense .a member of a particular ethnic group,.first recorded in 945, came into existence.
在一篇400年以前的中古英語文章中寫道，一座神殿的一部分倒塌了并.導(dǎo)致一個種族的徹底毀滅.，人們想知道為什么一個種族單單被挑出去死。但是ethnic 在這個上下文中的意思是.異教徒.， 來自于希臘語的形容詞ethnikos ， 意為.民族的，外來的，異教的.。該形容詞源自名詞ethnos， 意為.民族、種族、外來人.， 它的復(fù)數(shù)形式ta ethne， 意為.外來民族.。 在把希伯來圣經(jīng)翻譯成希臘語的過程中，這一詞組被用作希伯來語中的goyim， 意為.異教徒.； 因此名詞的含意在中世紀(jì)英語被引用。即使相關(guān)含意講的名詞ethnic 在728年之后也未被收錄，盡管這時相關(guān)的形容詞含義已被應(yīng)用， 但大概在那些可追溯到古希臘語ethnos 的詞， 如ethnograthy 和 ethnology 的影響下， 形容詞ethnic 在9世紀(jì)時對詞義進(jìn)行了擴(kuò)充。 這次擴(kuò)充后，名詞詞意為.某一特定的種族群體中的一員.，在945年被首次收錄并開始存在