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: {0 d3 {3 d j6 r4 \# ~引用自"Merriam Webster" bicommunal词条
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: involving or including two distinct communities of people : of, relating to, or being a society composed of two distinct or separate communities often with conflicting interests
- ~/ y2 e" F% o5 M t$ y- N+ E<In the Canadian federation, there is a strong bicommunal element, given the fundamental English-speaking and French-speaking division. — Ronald L. Watts, Autonomy and Ethnicity: Negotiating Competing Claims in Multi-ethnic States, 2000> 0 {7 A8 U6 ~9 C2 C+ z9 Q+ m
<In any case, neither the EU nor any supranational structure would possess any innate advantage in attempts to resolve bicommunal disputes such as that in Northern Ireland. — Derek W. Urwin, Regions and Regionalism in Europe, 2004>
/ Y9 L3 ~' Y& G% z<Perhaps most importantly, Rwanda can be described as a bicommunal society. 3 ]& e- i q: ]$ r
This term refers to a society where over 80 percent of the population belongs to one of two well-defined identity groups. Also, the two groups in Rwanda/卢旺达 are not in balance.
6 e, O- w7 C1 ?7 _& J Bicommunal societies are marked by social differentiation and segregation, which often results in political separation or conflict. — John James Quinn et al., Ethnic Conflict and International Politics, 2004> , T- s7 [6 P. D+ U1 W- q) k
0 G( E% q7 _9 Y% P9 Z; `这个应该是个新收录的词,Oxford, OED, AmericanHeritageDict, Webster's New World, Vocabulary.com, Merriam-Webster Collegiate都没有收录。( e$ c7 @' v8 C1 x; O0 ?) @
2 r+ D9 I% L5 Y' T' m在线的这个应该是 Merriam-Webster unabridged收录的。0 g, r: @5 I) b5 a9 |: x
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另外,看了下关于 Merriam-Webster unabridged与Merriam-Webster collegiate的区别。
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