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家园 我网上找到的剑桥和韦伯的解释

剑桥

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/de/worterbuch/englisch/pariah

a person who is not accepted by a social group, especially because he or she is not liked, respected, or trusted

韦伯

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pariah

Definition of pariah

1: a member of a low caste of southern India

2: one that is despised or rejected : OUTCAST

韦伯还有例子

第一个例子

//For decades, African states longed for the day when South Africa would be liberated from its status as the apartheid pariah and become the economic engine that would pull Africa out of its mire of poverty and underdevelopment, much as Japan did for the Pacific Rim.

— Allister Sparks, Wilson Quarterly, Spring 2001

这个例子里的非洲国家把南非视为实行种族隔离制度的非洲弃儿或流氓国家,而不是贱民国家。

第二个例子

//Once they began to migrate to the United States, especially after this country conferred citizenship on them in 1917, they discovered what it meant to be a pariah in the country that had adopted them.

— John Hope Franklin, "The Land of Room Enough," 1981, in Race and History, 1989

这里可能更多的是贱民的意思。

还有两个例子指个人的。

He's a talented player but his angry outbursts have made him a pariah in the sport of baseball.

I felt like a pariah when I wore the wrong outfit to the dinner party.

这里都是格格不入,被抛弃的意思,没有贱民的意思。

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