seneca
seneca — 名詞
- senecasingular
- senecasplural
1. a Native American people whose traditional homeland lay in what is now New York
塞內卡族
北美原住民族，為易洛魁聯盟成員
a Native American people whose traditional homeland lay in what is now New York State. The Seneca are the largest member nation of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy and are known as the 'Keepers of the Western Door.'
The Seneca originally lived in villages surrounded by wooden walls near the Finger Lakes.
塞內卡族原本住在五指湖附近的木牆村莊裡。
collocation: the Seneca + verb of location
Professor Williams spent twelve years studying the oral history of the Seneca.
Williams 教授花了十二年研究塞內卡族的口述歷史。
The Seneca were called the 'Keepers of the Western Door' within the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
塞內卡族在易洛魁聯盟中被稱為「西門守護者」。
A museum exhibit tracing Seneca history through four centuries opened in Buffalo last spring.
去年春天，水牛城開了一場追溯塞內卡族四百年歷史的博物館展覽。
Elders from the Seneca Nation Council travelled to Ottawa for the Indigenous leaders' summit.
塞內卡族議會的長老們前往渥太華參加原住民領袖高峰會。
文法句型
the + Seneca + plural verb
Seneca + singular verb (collective)
用法筆記
Collective-noun usage: Seneca takes a plural verb when referring to the people as a political or cultural group ('the Seneca are…'), parallel to 'the police are…' or 'the staff are…' in British English.
常見錯誤
2. an individual belonging to any Seneca community, including those currently resid
塞內卡人
塞內卡民族的個別成員
an individual belonging to any Seneca community, including those currently residing in New York, Ohio, and Oklahoma.
Each Seneca who attended the ceremony wore beaded regalia passed down through their family.
每位參加儀式的塞內卡人都穿著家族傳承下來的珠飾禮服。
pattern: each + Seneca + who-clause
A young Seneca from the Cattaraugus Reservation won a national poetry competition last year.
一位來自卡特勞格斯保留區的年輕塞內卡人去年贏得了全國詩歌比賽。
countable: a + Seneca + location
The artist is a Seneca who uses traditional corn-husk weaving in her contemporary sculptures.
這位藝術家是塞內卡人，她在當代雕塑中運用傳統玉米殼編織技法。
Many Seneca now live in urban areas while maintaining strong ties to their reservation communities.
許多塞內卡人現在住在都市地區，同時與保留區社群保持緊密聯繫。
Grandmother was a Seneca midwife who delivered babies on the Allegany Reservation for thirty years.
祖母是塞內卡助產士，她在亞利根尼保留區接生了三十年。
文法句型
a + Seneca + singular verb
Seneca + plural verb
用法筆記
The plural of 'a Seneca' is most commonly 'Seneca' (zero plural), e.g. 'several Seneca'. The form 'Senecas' is less frequent and may sound dated or overly formal in modern English.
常見錯誤
3. the Iroquoian language traditionally spoken by the Seneca people. Today it is an
塞內卡語
塞內卡人使用的易洛魁語系語言
the Iroquoian language traditionally spoken by the Seneca people. Today it is an endangered language with only a small number of fluent speakers remaining.
Linguist Dr. Chen is recording Seneca grammar before the last fluent speakers are gone.
語言學家陳博士正在記錄塞內卡語的語法，以免最後幾位流利使用者消失。
collocation: record / document + Seneca
Fewer than fifty people speak Seneca as their first language today.
今天以塞內卡語為母語的人不到五十人。
collocation: speak Seneca as [one's] first language
A new digital dictionary of Seneca was launched by the tribal language programme in 2023.
部落語言計劃在 2023 年推出了新的塞內卡語數位辭典。
Children at the Salamanca school learn songs in Seneca during culture class every week.
薩拉曼卡學校的孩子們每週在文化課上學唱塞內卡語歌曲。
The word for 'thank you' in Seneca is 'nyá:wëh', which appears often in daily conversation.
塞內卡語的「謝謝」是 nyá:wëh，在日常對話中經常出現。
文法句型
speak + Seneca
in + Seneca
Seneca + language / grammar / dictionary
用法筆記
Seneca belongs to the Northern Iroquoian branch of the Iroquoian language family, closely related to Cayuga, Onondaga, and Mohawk.