人蛇
jan4 se4rén shé
English
- illegal immigrant (esp. one smuggled across borders)
- illegal immigrant
粵語 — Cantonese
- 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