Briton

英 [ˈbrɪtn]

美 [ˈbrɪtn]

n.  英国人

复数：britons　

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Collins.2 / BNC.6639 / COCA.13551

牛津词典

noun

• 英国人
  a person from Britain
  1. the ancient Britons
     古英国人
  2. the first Briton to walk in space
     第一个在太空漫步的英国人

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 英国公民；英国人
  ABritonis a British citizen, or a person of British origin.
  1. The role is played by seventeen-year-old Briton Jane March.
     这个角色由17岁的英国人简·马奇扮演。

双语例句

• In1996, another Briton, Mandy Allwood, became pregnant with octuplets after taking fertility drugs.
  1996年，另一个英国人，曼迪，怀了八胞胎，在服用了排卵药物之后。
• The writer Caitlin Moran half-jokes that she is the only working-class Briton with a newspaper column: I have the entire quota.
  作家凯特琳•莫兰（CaitlinMoran）半开玩笑地称自己是专栏作家中唯一一个来自工薪阶层的英国人：我一人就占掉了全部配额。
• The Briton had been one of the few foreign CEOs of a Japanese blue chip.
  英国成为持有日本蓝筹股的少数外国首席执行官之一。
• Several years later, a Briton who was working in my factory realized that both of us were in Baghdad for two years at nearly the same time.
  几年后，到我们厂工作的一位英国人与我聊天中发现我们都在巴格达干过二三年，时间也前后差不多。
• Wang's opinion is shared by Oliver Smithies, a British-born American geneticist who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with an American and Briton for development of gene targeting in mice.
  王的观点也受到奥利弗•史密斯的赞同，一个英国出生的美国遗传学家，2007年与一个美国人和一个英国人因对老鼠基因靶向技术的发展研究而共同获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。
• Potential customers already discussing the$ 100 million tickets include several Americans and one Briton, Anderson said.
  安德森说，已经开始讨论价值一亿美元的“机票”的潜在客户包括几名美国人和一名英国人。
• A Foreign Office spokeswoman said an inquest was not automatically carried out when a Briton died overseas.
  英国外交部发言人说当有英国人死于海外时并不会自动进行调查。
• In the early 2000s Churchill, Adenauer and De Gaulle were voted greatest Briton, German and Frenchman.
  在本世纪初，丘吉尔、阿登纳和戴高乐分别被票选为最伟大的英国人、德国人和法国人。
• Your own father married a briton.
  你父亲和一个大不列颠人结了婚。
• I'm really disappointed, said the Briton.
  我真的很失望，说：英国人。