ethnic
音标：
英音/ ˈeθnɪk / 美音/ ˈeθnɪk /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
So it was peculiar when a street brawl broke out among mostly ethnic Chinese demonstrators.
因此，当以华人为主的示威者爆发街头斗殴时，情况就显得很奇怪。
—New York Times
The security forces have also set up check-points across the region, with reports that many Amharas have in recent months been barred from travelling to Addis Ababa, raising concerns of ethnic profiling.
安全部队还在该地区设立了检查站，有报道称，近几个月来，许多阿姆哈拉人被禁止前往亚的斯亚贝巴，引发了对种族定性的担忧。
—BBC
It is still used today by the farmers and young men who have formed militias to defend the Amhara people whose future, they believe, is threatened by the government and other ethnic groups.
今天，农民和年轻人仍然在使用它，他们组建了民兵来保卫阿姆哈拉人，他们认为阿姆哈拉人的未来受到政府和其他族裔群体的威胁。
—BBC
基本释意：
adjective
denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people
（有关）种族的，民族的；少数民族的；具有民族特色的，异国风味的；既非基督教亦非犹太教的，异教徒的
同义词：
cultural,ethnical,heathen,heathenish,pagan
短释义：
The word ethnic comes from the Greek ethnos, “nation,” “people.” Groups of people from specific areas who share the same or similar customs are ethnic groups. People who resettle in other countries often bring their distinctive traditions with them, including language, food, lifestyle, and music. There are ethnic restaurants, shops, and neighborhoods around the world, including Indian buffets, Italian shoe makers, and Greek Towns and China Towns.
一个民族是由具有独特文化的一群人组成的。来自波斯尼亚的人们组成了一个称为波斯尼亚人的民族，他们有着共同的文化传统，通常注重热情好客和家庭。
长释义：
The word ethnic comes from the Greek ethnos, “nation,” “people.” Groups of people from specific areas who share the same or similar customs are ethnic groups. People who resettle in other countries often bring their distinctive traditions with them, including language, food, lifestyle, and music. There are ethnic restaurants, shops, and neighborhoods around the world, including Indian buffets, Italian shoe makers, and Greek Towns and China Towns.
“民族”一词源自希腊语“ethnos”，意为“民族”、“人民”。来自特定地区、具有相同或相似习俗的人群称为民族。移居到其他国家的人们往往会带来他们独特的传统，包括语言、食物、生活方式和音乐。世界各地都有民族风味的餐厅、商店和社区，包括印度自助餐、意大利制鞋厂、希腊城镇和唐人街。
文学例句：
Ultimately, it led to the establishment of ethnic studies departments where courses were offered in such fields as nineteenth-century black history and Hispanic-American folk art.
最终，它导致了种族研究系的成立，提供十九世纪黑人历史和西班牙裔美国民间艺术等领域的课程。
—Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez
He made every effort to understand Seoul’s culture and to fit in, believing that ethnic identity was the central problem of his life.
他尽一切努力了解首尔的文化并融入其中，认为种族认同是他生活的中心问题。
—Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
The Germans are upset at stories that Czechs and Poles are abusing ethnic Germans living in Czechoslovakia and Poland.
德国人对捷克人和波兰人虐待居住在捷克斯洛伐克和波兰的德国人的报道感到不安。
—The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
词源：
ethnic (adj.)late 15c. (earlier ethnical, early 15c.) “pagan, heathen,” from Late Latin ethnicus, from Greek ethnikos “of or for a nation, national,” by some writers (Polybius, etc.) “adopted to the genius or customs of a people, peculiar to a people,” and among the grammarians “suited to the manners or language of foreigners,” from ethnos “band of people living together, nation, people, tribe, caste,” also used of swarms or flocks of animals, properly “people of one’s own kind,” from PIE *swedh-no-, suffixed form of root *s(w)e-, third person pronoun and reflexive, also forming words referring to the social group (see idiom). Earlier in English as a noun, “a heathen, pagan, one who is not a Christian or Jew” (c. 1400). In modern noun use, “member of an ethnic group,” from 1945.In Septuagint, Greek ta ethne translates Hebrew goyim, plural of goy “nation,” especially of non-Israelites, hence especially “gentile nation, foreign nation not worshipping the true God” (see goy), and ethnikos is used by ecclesiastical writers in a sense of “savoring of the nature of pagans, alien to the worship of the true God,” and as a noun “the pagan, the gentile.” The classical sense of “peculiar to a race or nation” in English is attested from 1851, a return to the word’s original meaning; that of “different cultural groups” is 1935; and that of “racial, cultural or national minority group” is American English 1945. Ethnic cleansing is attested from 1991.Although the term ‘ethnic cleansing’ has come into English usage only recently, its verbal correlates in Czech, French, German, and Polish go back much further. [Jerry Z. Muller, “Us and Them: The Enduring Power of Ethnic Nationalism,” Foreign Affairs, March/April 2008]Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
民族 (adj.) 晚 15c. （早期的种族，15世纪早期）“异教徒，异教徒”，源自晚期拉丁语ethicus，源自希腊语ethnikos“属于或为了一个国家、民族”，一些作家（波利比乌斯等）“采用了一个民族的天才或习俗” people，一个民族所特有的”，在语法学家中，“适合外国人的方式或语言”，来自ethnos“一群生活在一起的人，民族，人民，部落，种姓”，也用于群体或动物群，正确的“people of one’s own kind”源自 PIE *swedh-no-，词根 *s(w)e- 的后缀形式，第三人称代词和反身词，也构成指称社会群体的单词（参见成语）。早期在英语中作为名词，“异教徒、异教徒、非基督徒或犹太人的人”（约1400年）。在现代名词使用中，自 1945 年以来，“族裔群体的成员”。在《七十士译本》中，希腊语 ta ethne 翻译为希伯来语 goyim，goy“民族”的复数形式，特指非以色列人，因此特指“外邦民族，不崇拜以色列人的外国民族”。真神”（见 goy），而 ethnikos 被教会作家用来表示“品味异教徒的本性，与对真神的崇拜格格不入”，并作为名词“异教徒、外邦人”。英语中“种族或民族特有”的经典含义自1851年起得到证实，回归到该词的原始含义； “不同文化群体”是1935年； “种族、文化或民族少数群体”一词是 1945 年美式英语。种族清洗从 1991 年开始得到证实。虽然“种族清洗”一词最近才开始在英语中使用，但它在捷克语、法语、德语和波兰人的历史可以追溯到更远的地方。 [Jerry Z. Muller，“我们和他们：种族民族主义的持久力量”，外交事务，2008 年 3 月/4 月]相关条目及更多内容
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