refugee
英検2級難民
意味
- (特に祖国からの)亡命者,逃亡者,難民
例文
We must relieve the refugees of their suffering.
難民達の苦しみを救済すべきだ。
The UN endeavored to supply refugees with food.
国連は難民に食糧を与えるため努力した。
The Red Cross distributed food to the refugees.
赤十字は難民たちに食糧を配った。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From French réfugié, past participle of réfugier (“to take refuge, to seek refuge”), from Old French refuge (“hiding place”) from Latin refugium (“a place of refuge, place to flee back to”), originally describing French Huguenots fleeing religious persecution after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Noun sense 1 was "one seeking asylum" until 1914, when it evolved to mean more generally "one fleeing home" (first applied in this sense to civilians in Flanders heading west to escape fighting in World War I). By surface analysis, refuge + -ee. Displaced native Old English flīema.