yellow peril

短语

黄祸

词形变化

yellow perils 复数 yellow perils

别名

Yellow Peril the yellow peril

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The alleged threat to Western nations by East Asians, especially Chinese or Japanese people, due to their vast population, non-Western cultures, or supposed antagonism to the West.

    黄祸

    黄祸论

    贬义 历史 冒犯
  2. 2.

    East Asian nations or peoples, conceived as threatening.

    贬义 历史 冒犯

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

threat menace

词源

Of yellow + peril, modeled on earlier French péril jaune. Compare yellow as a racist term for East Asian people. Attested in English from the 1890s. The French cognate is attested from the 1880s.

来源：wiktionary