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- Uncle Tom
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n
[informal]
[derogatory]
a Black person whose behaviour towards White people is regarded as obsequious and servile
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n
[Etymology]
C20: after the slave who is the main character of H.B. Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
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1.
n
[informal]
[derogatory]
a Black person whose behaviour towards White people is regarded as obsequious and servile
Examples
- My uncle arrived here this afternoon on a surprise visit.
- 今天下午，我叔叔突然来看我。 → surprise
- How do you feel about becoming an uncle?
- 你觉得当叔叔的感觉怎么样？ → uncle
- Give uncle a wave goodbye, he's leaving.
- 快和叔叔挥手道别，叔叔要走了。 → wave
- My uncle was the sports manager of a football team.
- 我叔叔曾是一支球队的经理。 → manager
- My uncle is six feet tall.
- 我叔叔有六英尺高。 → six
- I got a letter from my uncle today.
- 我今天收到了舅舅的一封信。
- My uncle Philip had very skillfully made a concealed trap-door.
- 我叔叔菲利普用他高超的技术做了一扇隐蔽的地板门。
- his maternal uncle → maternal
- his uncle is chairman of the company, so he has quite a lot of pull → pull
- Tom来中国不到半年, 却俨然一个中国通的样子。
- Though in China for less than half a year, Tom already knows a lot about China. → 中国通
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