English Dictionary

go native

動詞

慣用表現

(idiomatic) To adopt the lifestyle or outlook of local inhabitants, especially when dwelling in a colonial region.

日本語の意味

（慣用句）現地の住民の生活様式や価値観、風習に順応・同化すること。 / （例）植民地などの滞在中に、地元の生活や文化を採用すること。

After three years stationed in the colony, several administrators began to go native, adopting local dress and customs.

植民地に3年間駐在した後、数人の役人は現地の服装や習慣を取り入れて現地の生活に溶け込むようになった。

意味（1）

(idiomatic) To adopt the lifestyle or outlook of local inhabitants, especially when dwelling in a colonial region.

[…]for St. Xavier's looks down on boys who ‘go native all-together.’ One must never forget that one is a Sahib, and that some day, when examinations are passed, one will command natives.

意味（2）

(idiomatic) Of a contractor or consultant, to begin working directly as an employee for a company and cease to work through a contracting firm or agency.

[…] we had to stop putting job-hunting colonels in charge of AFPRO detachments in the plants. It almost always happened that they went native and began to represent the contractor rather than the government.

goes native （ present singular third-person ）

going native （ participle present ）

went native （ past ）

gone native （ participle past ）