African-Americanの意味・使い方・発音

African-American

['æfrikən ə'merikən]

African-American (adj.): there are isolated instances from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but the modern use is a re-invention first attested 1969 (in reference to the African-American Teachers Association) which became the preferred term in some circles for "U.S. black" (noun or adjective) by the late 1980s. Mencken, 1921, reports Aframerican "is now very commonly used in the Negro press." Afro-American is attested in 1853, in freemen's publications in Canada. Africo-American (1817 as a noun, 1826 as an adjective) was common in abolitionist and colonization society writings.

1. And a number of African countries,too,are slipping through the net.: そしていくつかのアフリカ諸国も漏れている。

2.The African National Congress threatened to withdraw from the talks.アフリカ国民大会は会談から退出すると脅している。

3.Contemporary African cinema has much to offer in its vitality and freshness.: 現代アフリカ映画は活力と新規性に優れている。

5.The South African mailboat arrived on Friday mornings unless bad weather intervened.: 南アフリカ郵船は悪天候に邪魔されない限り、金曜日の午前中に到着するのが一般的だ。