nomad
/ˈnəʊmæd/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈnəʊmæd/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈnō-ˌmad/ (ame, mw)
nomad — 名詞
- nomadsingular
- nomadsplural
1. someone belonging to a community that travels through different lands to find fo
游牧民族
逐水草而居的部族成員
someone belonging to a community that travels through different lands to find food, water, or grazing for their animals, instead of settling in one home.
Karim grew up among the desert nomads who followed the rain across northern Chad.
Karim 在追逐雨水穿越查德北部的沙漠游牧民族中長大。
noun phrase: [region] nomads who [verb] across [place]
The Mongolian nomads packed their felt tents onto camels every spring.
蒙古的游牧民族每年春天會把氈帳裝上駱駝。
modifier + nomads (ethnic/geographic descriptor)
Apinya wrote her thesis on the reindeer-herding nomads of northern Sweden.
Apinya 的論文研究瑞典北部以馴鹿放牧為生的游牧民族。
Drought in the Sahel forced many nomads to abandon their herds.
薩赫爾地區的乾旱迫使許多游牧民族放棄畜群。
Zuri visited a camp where the nomads were preparing to cross the mountains.
Zuri 拜訪了一個游牧民族營地，當地人正準備翻越山脈。
- wanderer
broader and more literary; covers any person without a fixed route
- pastoralist
technical anthropology term focused on herders; narrower than nomad
- drifter
negative connotation: someone moving aimlessly, often jobless; nomad implies a cultural pattern
- settler
someone who establishes a permanent home
文法句型
a nomad of [region]
[ethnic] nomads
用法筆記
Typically appears with an ethnic or geographic modifier ('desert nomads', 'Tuareg nomads', 'Mongolian nomads'). The noun is usually count-plural in real usage because it names a member of a group; singular 'a nomad' is grammatical but less common outside definitions and modern figurative uses ('a digital nomad').