returnees
意味一覧 (2件)
帰国者
解説 Definition
母国や元の居住地に帰ってきた人々。帰還者。
Returnees are people who come back to their home country, hometown, school, or workplace after living or staying somewhere else. The word is often used in discussions of education, work, or migration. It usually refers to a group rather than one person.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
returnees は return「戻る」+ -ee「〜される人、関わる人」+ 複数の -s と考えると、「戻ってきた人々」と読めます。「帰国者」の意味では、海外滞在、移住、留学、避難などを経て自分の国へ戻ってきた人たちを指します。home country, abroad, overseas, repatriation など国境や母国に関わる語と一緒に覚えると使い分けやすいです。書き言葉や報道でもよく見ます。
Start with `return`: the core idea is coming back. The ending `-ee` often points to a person involved in an action, as in `employee` or `interviewee`. `Returnees` are people who have come back, often to their home country after living, studying, or staying abroad.
例文
The returnees struggled to adapt to a homeland they barely recognized.
帰国者たちは、ほとんど見覚えのない祖国に適応するのに苦労した。
A support center was established to help returnees find employment.
帰国者の就職を支援するためにサポートセンターが設立された。
Many of the returnees had spent decades living abroad before coming home.
帰国者の多くは、帰国する前に何十年も海外で暮らしていた。
帰還者
(意味 2)解説 Definition
returnees は、避難先・戦地・施設・職場などから、以前いた場所へ戻ってきた人々を指します。国境を越える場合に限らず、災害後や紛争後、長期滞在後の集団について書き言葉でよく使われます。
Returnees are people who come back to a place where they lived, stayed, or worked before. The word is often used in writing about groups returning after war, disaster, evacuation, or a long stay elsewhere. It does not only refer to crossing national borders; it can also describe people returning within the same country or community.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
kauri は timber や wood と一緒に覚えると、「カウリの木から取れる材」という意味がはっきりします。oak table が「オーク材のテーブル」を表せるのと同じように、kauri furniture, kauri floorboards, kauri timber では家具・床板・建材としての素材を指します。木目、耐久性、古材、工芸品の説明で出やすく、文中で板や家具など作られた物が話題なら「カウリ材」と読むのが自然です。
Learn kauri with words like timber and wood so the idea of wood from the kauri tree becomes clear. Just as oak table can mean a table made of oak, phrases like kauri furniture, kauri floorboards, and kauri timber refer to the material. When the sentence is about boards, furniture, or building materials, it is natural to understand kauri as kauri wood.
例文
The town prepared temporary housing and support services for the returnees after the flood.
町は洪水の後、帰還者のために仮設住宅と支援サービスを用意した。
Aid workers interviewed returnees about the conditions in their home villages.
支援員たちは、故郷の村の状況について帰還者に聞き取りを行った。
Many returnees found that their workplaces and schools had changed during their absence.
多くの帰還者は、不在の間に職場や学校が変わっていることに気づいた。
returnees の語源・成り立ち Etymology
re-（再び）＋turn（向きを変える）＋-ee（～される人）の構成。turnは古フランス語torner（回転する）からで、ラテン語tornare（旋盤で削る）が起源。-eeはフランス語の過去分詞語尾で、employee（雇われる人）と同じ形。帰還した人の意。
Returnees is built from return + -ee. Return comes through Old French tourner or retourner, from Latin tornare, originally "to turn on a lathe," and later more generally "to turn." The suffix -ee, from French patterns, marks the person affected by an action, so returnees developed as a word for people who have come back. Related English words include turn, return, and employee.
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