gentile

英 [ˈdʒentaɪl]

美 [ˈdʒentaɪl]

n.  非犹太人; 外邦人(犹太人对非犹太人的通称)
adj.  非犹太人的，异教徒的，非摩门教徒的

复数：gentiles　

BNC.17620 / COCA.30013

牛津词典

noun

• 非犹太人；外邦人（犹太人对非犹太人的通称）
  a person who is not Jewish

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 非犹太人
  also gentile. AGentileis a person who is not Jewish.
  1. Gentileis also an adjective.
     
  2. ...a flood of Jewish and Gentile German refugees.
     大批犹太与非犹太裔德国难民

英英释义

noun

• a Christian
  1. Christians refer to themselves as gentiles
• a Christian as contrasted with a Jew
  Synonym:non-Jewgoy
• a person who is not a member of one's own religion
• a person who does not acknowledge your god
  Synonym:heathenpaganinfidel

adj

• belonging to or characteristic of non-Jewish peoples

双语例句

• And, finally, it proclaims the irreconcilable opposition between gentile society and the state;
  最后，它宣告了氏族社会和国家之间的不可调和的矛盾；
• Are you a jew? Or have you become a gentile?
  你是犹太人吗？还是变成了非犹太人？
• The wide extent of the kingdom could not be governed with the means provided by the old gentile constitution;
  由于王国幅员广阔，就不能利用旧的氏族制度的手段来管理了；
• I should like to help everyone if possible: Jew, gentile, black man, white.
  我想帮助每个人：犹太人，非犹太人，黑人，白人。
• They were, however, already beginning to break the fetters of the gentile constitution.
  不过他们已经开始粉碎氏族制度的枷锁了。
• So he was apparently a God-fearing Gentile, and somewhat wealthy.
  这表示他是个敬拜神的外邦人，也相当有钱。
• Esther was a Jew who married a Gentile and saved her own nation.
  以斯帖则是嫁给外邦人的犹太女子，并因此救了她的民族。
• The circumcision performed by a Gentile doctor was pronounced unclean.
  由菲犹太医生施行的割礼被宣布为是不洁净的。
• But this tore a breach in the old gentile order; the single family became a power, and its rise was a menace to the gens.
  但是这样一来，在古代的氏族制度中就出现了一个裂口：个体家庭已经成为一种力量，并且以威胁的姿态起来与氏族对抗了。
• A gentile name conferred of itself gentile rights.
  一个氏族成员的名字就赋予它本身以氏族成员的权力。