粵

人jan4蛇se4

jan4 se4rén shé

English

  1. illegal immigrant (esp. one smuggled across borders)
  2. illegal immigrant

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 非法入境者;偷渡,唔經合法口岸同途徑進入某個地方嘅人,可以係透過蛇頭幫手或被人蛇集團操縱(量詞:條)

Examples

  • 人蛇集團

    human smuggling gang

  • 西貢有個人冇身份證俾差佬拉咗,初步懷疑係大陸偷渡過境嘅人蛇。

    The police caught a man without ID in Sai Kung, it is suspected that he is an illegal immigrant from mainland China.

  • 地中海近日接二連三發生人蛇船海難,短短兩日就有過千人葬身海底。

    Recently, a series of shipwrecks left more than a thousand illegal immigrants dead at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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