pariah
pariah 英 [pəˈraɪə] 美 [pəˈraɪə]
n. 贱民（印度的最下阶级）
名词复数:pariahs
- A pariah is someone that has been soundly rejected by their community. Your constant gossiping might make you a pariah on campus.
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- n. 贱民（印度的最下阶级）
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1. First, simply, it was a matter of face, of reducing its pariah-state image —a tangible symbol of being welcomed back into the global community.
首先，简单地说，这是面子问题，可以弱化它的贱民国家形象——一个欢迎它回归国际社会的切实象征。
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2. While the report was not confirmed, it is consistent with China's increasing desire to distance itself from pariah states in Africa and elsewhere that used to be treated as old friends.
尽管这些消息没有得到证实，但它符合中国越发渴望与非洲及其他地方的贱民国家（在过去，它们被当作老朋友对待）保持距离的愿望。
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3. He had been known as the ruthless leader of a pariah state, a butcher, a delusional man divorced from reality.
他就是被人称为一个贱民国度的残忍领导人，一个屠夫，一个脱离实际只会妄想的男子汉。
- pariah (n.) 1610s, from Portuguese paria or directly from Tamil (Dravidian) paraiyar, plural of paraiyan "drummer" (at festivals, the hereditary duty of members of the largest of the lower castes of southern India), from parai "large festival drum." "Especially numerous at Madras, where its members supplied most of the domestics in European service" [OED]. Applied by Hindus and Europeans to any members of low Hindu castes and even to outcastes. Extended meaning "social outcast" is first attested 1819.
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