boat people

英 [ˈbəʊt piːpl]

美 [ˈboʊt piːpl]

n.  船民(乘小船逃到他国的难民)

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牛津词典

noun

• 船民（乘小船逃到他国的难民）
  people who escape from their own country in small boats to try to find safety in another country

柯林斯词典

• N-PLURAL 乘船逃到他国的难民；船民
  Boat peopleare people who escape from their country in small boats to travel to another country in the hope that they will be able to live there..
  1. ...50,000 Vietnamese boat people.
     5万名乘船逃难的越南人

双语例句

• Most of the boat people were Rohingyas, members of a Muslim minority, many of whom had already fled Myanmar once, for Bangladesh.
  船民中大多数都是洛兴亚人&穆斯林的一支少数部族。他们其中很多人曾经逃离缅甸，前往孟加拉。
• Before and after Dragon Boat Festival, people should take the fragrant bag for the children besides eating to the brown son, inserting the tarragon.
  端午节前后，人们除了吃棕子、插艾叶以外，还要给孩子们带上香囊。
• United Nations Conference on Vietnamese Boat People
  联合国越南船民会议
• The boat is ferrying people.
  船在摆渡。
• On Dragon Boat Festival, people put inserted moxa and calamus as one of important content.
  在端午节，人们把插艾和菖蒲作为重要内容之一。
• They advised, of course, that too many people were steering the boat, while not enough people were rowing.
  自然，咨询公司也认为掌舵人太多、而划船人数不够才导致了这样的结局。
• Riding a white boat race organized spontaneously by the people, there is no fixed organization and lead people.
  踏白船比赛由群众自发举办，没有固定的组织机构和牵头人。
• Kai Tak Vietnamese Boat People Departure Centre
  启德越南船民离港中心
• This development coincided, however, not just with an influx of "boat people" from Vietnam but with the arrival of refugees from Cambodia, Laos and Thailand.
  而这个开发项目不仅适逢越南“船民”的涌入，还伴随着柬埔寨、老挝和泰国难民的到来。
• We were like the boat people on top of a cargo ship.
  当时，我们就象船夫一样呆在一艘货船的顶部。