English Dictionary

refusenik

名詞

歴史的 俗語 口語

(Soviet Union, slang, historical) One of the citizens of the former Soviet Union, typically but not exclusively Jewish, who were refused permission to emigrate.

日本語の意味

旧ソ連において、国外渡航や移住の許可が拒否された市民（特にユダヤ人が中心とされる歴史的な呼称）

As a young refusenik, she spent years petitioning the authorities for permission to emigrate.

若いころ、旧ソ連で出国を許可されなかった市民だった彼女は、国外へ出る許可を得るために何年も当局に嘆願した。

意味（1）

(Soviet Union, slang, historical) One of the citizens of the former Soviet Union, typically but not exclusively Jewish, who were refused permission to emigrate.

In 1974, a handful of brave Soviet Jews haunted foreign embassies in Moscow hoping for exit visas. Refuseniks, they were called; the Brezhnev Government wouldn't let them out.

意味（2）

(colloquial) A person who refuses to do something, for example one who refuses conscription or vaccination.

Richard Ellmann once referred to Samuel Beckett as “Nayman from Noland”—the author as national refusenik. Beckett famously refused to allow a national representative from either Ireland or France to pick up his Nobel Prize, sending his publisher instead […]

refuseniks （ plural ）