英语释义

• pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry;

  "Afro-American culture"

  "many black people preferred to be called African-American or Afro-American"

• an American whose ancestors were born in Africa

片语

African-American community非裔美国人社区

An African-American非裔美国人

African-American women黑人女性

African-American Names非洲裔美国人的名称

African-American Music music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses

同义词： black music

African- American非裔美国人（指美国黑人）；非裔美籍（等于African American）

African- American Studies非裔美国人研究

african-american institute非洲美洲协会

African-American Dream美国黑人梦

英汉例句

• Voters in Pennsylvania know in the end their choice will be historic, and for the first time a major political party will nominate either a woman or an African-American for the presidency.

  宾州的选民知道，他们的选择最终具有历史意义，美国主要政党将第一次提名一位妇女或者非洲裔美国人作为总统候选人。

• Last year, the significance of the Obamas was more symbolic than it is today, based in part on the presence of the first African-American family in the White House.

  去年，奥巴马的重要性比今日更具象征意义，部分因为他是首位入主白宫的非洲裔美国人。

• But the initiative would have passed, barely, even if not a single African-American had shown up at the polls.

  但是反对八号议案几乎不可能被通过，即便没有一个非裔美国人出现在民意调查里。

• At which point then Malia turns to me and says: 「First, African-American President, [it had] better be good, 「said Mr.」 Obama.

  正在这个时候，玛利亚转过身来对我说，‘第一个非洲裔美国总统！那得做得好一点才行！’

• Over the last decade, more than a thousand Internet dating sites have emerged, catering to such niches as Jewish, African-American and even obese singles.

  过去十年里，共有一千多个互联网交友网站问世，分别去迎合犹太人、非洲裔美国人甚至还有肥胖单身者的需要。

• But we will say, as a general rule, we believe this person could be a white individual or a black or African-American individual, or perhaps Hispanic, Native American.

  但是，我们会说，按照一般规则，我们相信这个人可以是个白人或者是个非裔美国黑人，或者是拉美裔人，或者是印第安人。

• The supporting evidence was strong on its own: African-American residents without water had made repeated requests over a period of almost 50 years to remedy the inequity, to no avail.

  支持证据本身就很强有力：没有水的非裔美国居民在近50年里曾经多次要求纠正不公平待遇，但是没有结果。

• President Obama says he regrets contributing to what he describes as the frenzy over the arrest of an African-American professor by a white police officer in Massachusetts.

  马萨诸塞州一名白人警察逮捕了一位非洲裔美国教授。奥巴马总统称他非常遗憾为这次逮捕之后的激烈反应做了贡献。

• Virtually every African-American in the survey says it is likely he or she will watch Tuesday」s ceremonies on TV.

  几乎每一个受访的非洲裔美国人都表示，他们或她们将会通过电视观看周二的这场盛典。

• His fellow workers and boss are decades younger, mostly African-American and without the Ivy League degree he has from Yale.

  他的同事和上司都比他年轻几十岁，大多是非裔美国人，也不像他那样怀揣耶鲁大学颁发的毕业证。

• The least selective four-year colleges and community colleges are increasingly home to disproportionate concentrations of low-income students as well as African-American and Hispanic youth.

  普通大学及社区学院的学生则通常来自低收入家庭，例如非洲裔美国人家庭或者西班牙裔家庭。

• It opened the door to the Oval Office to an African-American for the first time, and did so with a national vote in which his race seems to have been a relatively minor factor.

  它首次向一位非洲裔美国人敞开了白宫椭圆形办公室的大门，而且，在实现这一创举的全国性投票中，他的种族背景似乎已是一个相对次要的因素。

• If the election of our first African-American President didn「t stir you, if it didn」t leave you teary-eyed and proud of your country, there「s something wrong with you.

  如果首位非洲裔美国人当选总统未能让你激动不已，未能让你泪眼摩挲，未能让你为自己的国家感到骄傲，那么你自身一定有问题。

• In Michigan, for example, the Asian-American life expectancy is 90, while for the average white person it」s 79 and for the average African-American it「s 73.

  比如说，在密西根州，亚裔美国人的期望寿命是90岁，而平均来说，对白人这个数据是79岁，对非洲裔美国人这个数据为73岁。

• Last year, in a special election, a Latina stood against two African-American candidates. If the black vote had split, she might have won.

  在去年的补选中，一个拉丁裔候选人与两名非洲裔美国人同台竞争，如果黑人选民的投票分散开来，那么她就有可能获胜。

• Cheryl Mills, a young African-American graduate of Stanford Law School, spoke on the sixth anniversary of the day she began her work in the White House.

  非裔美国人谢里尔·米尔斯是斯坦福法学院的年轻毕业生，她辩护陈词时恰逢是自己进白宫工作的六周年纪念日。

• Included in the show are photographs, clips of newsreel and documentary footage, African-American newspapers and periodicals, and 「portable」 culture such as fans, buttons, posters and pamphlets.

  展览展出了图片、新闻短片的剪报、纪录片的脚本、非洲裔美国人的报纸和期刊，还有一些「便携式」的视觉文化产物，如扇子、小徽章、海报和宣传册。

• I think that if anybody was looking for the quickest path to the presidency, they would not say 」I want to be an African-American man named Barack Obama.'

  奥巴马说：「我认为，任何人在寻找通往总统宝座的捷径的时候都不会说，‘我希望我是那个叫奥巴马的非洲裔美国人’。」

• What it would do to African-American support, in my view, to take the nomination at this stage from Barack Obama is something that superdelegates would not even want to venture to find out.

  这对非洲裔美国人的支持会产生什么作用？在我看来，这个阶段夺去奥巴马的提名，超级代表甚至不愿意冒险去寻找这个答案。

• But somehow the arrival of the mostly African-American and Latino children was still a shock. As the black and brown kids got into the pool, the white parents pulled their kids out.

  然而，这个大部分由非洲裔美国小孩和拉丁美洲的小孩组成的团队的到来仍然引起了震动：这群黑色和褐色皮肤的小孩一进游泳池，那些白人父母就把他们的孩子拉了出来。