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引用自"Merriam Webster" bicommunal词条
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; g; W B0 t- ?' k: 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 ( u2 W# U0 }& K ^3 ~4 Z
<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> 9 P( Y1 G: X. p2 r5 M1 K# d
<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>
! x2 J' u' e% ^2 t4 U* [<Perhaps most importantly, Rwanda can be described as a bicommunal society. ( Y: h4 V% ~' s1 q5 R# o0 e
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. Z8 t: T$ _: R# [+ i2 i% M
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> 7 T) m1 U3 w: E2 t. }; J
" i8 k' Z4 K+ T+ [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。
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" e) ^" Y- A7 A6 M$ z- C在线的这个应该是 Merriam-Webster unabridged收录的。& h+ v/ j/ B. s% t. v
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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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