People moving INTO a country to live there — seen from the inside, from the country that receives them.
immigration 的核心畫面可以想成「人往裡面搬進來」，而且是站在「接收國」這一邊看的。同一批人、同一趟搬家，從他們原本的國家看叫 emigration（遷出），從新的國家看就叫 immigration（遷入）——字首 im- 的「進來」和 e- 的「出去」剛好標出你站在哪一邊。
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
immigrationnoun/ɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃn/
- 1
The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country of which one is not native born for the purpose of permanent residence.
- The Bohemians had come then, and after them the Poles. People said that old man Durham himself was responsible for these immigrations; he had sworn that he would fix the people of Packingtown so that they would never again call a strike on him, and so he had sent his agents into every city and village in Europe to spread the tale of the chances of work and high wages at the stockyards.
- Another measure of the inadequacy of the Immigration and Nationality Act has been the huge volume of private immigration bills introduced in Congress. These are bills to deal with individual hardship cases for which the general law fails to provide. In the Eighty-seventh Congress over 3,500 such bills were introduced. Private immigration bills make up about half of our legislation today.
- 2
The process of going through immigration checks at a border checkpoint.
- It took ages to get through immigration last time.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。