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 Sinhalese [siŋhə'li:z]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 僧伽罗人(语)




    sinhalese
    [ noun ]
    1. a native or inhabitant of Sri Lanka

    2. <noun.person>
    3. the Indic language spoken by the people of Sri Lanka

    4. <noun.communication>
    [ adj ]
    1. of or relating to the Sinhalese languages

    2. <adj.pert>
      the Sinhalese versions of the Ramayana
    3. of or relating to the Sinhalese people

    4. <adj.pert>
      Sinhalese rebels fighting the Tamils


    1. The Sinhalese front, outlawed after a failed 1971 coup, contends that the pact makes too many concessions to the Tamils and has vowed to block it.
    2. Three Sinhalese extremists and a soldier were killed and militants torched buses on the first anniversary of an accord aimed at ending Tamil separatist violence, police said today.
    3. Earlier this month, Premadasa announced the amnesty as part of a peace plan under which Sinhalese and Tamil militants would receive parliamentary seats and jobs in return for renouncing violence.
    4. President Ranasinghe Premadasa has invited the Red Cross to send officials to Sri Lanka to help ease the conflict between Sinhalese rebels and the government, an official statement said Monday.
    5. At least 5,000 people have been killed in the campaign by Sinhalese ultranationalists.
    6. Sinhalese nationalists say it makes too many concessions.
    7. At least 500 people, including members of the governing United National Party, have been killed by Sinhalese militants.
    8. They say they are denied jobs and education by the majority Sinhalese, who comprise 75 percent of the population and control the government and military.
    9. The operation was called Jaya Shakthi, "victorious strength" in Sinhalese.
    10. He said a Sinhalese Sri Lankan soldier was fatally shot in a battle with extremists in Hambantota district in the south.
    11. Tamils comprise 18 percent of Sri Lanka's 16 million people and say they are discriminated against by the Sinhalese majority in jobs, education and use of the Sinhala language.
    12. Tamil militants say the government has been settling Sinhalese in the area to tilt the ethnic balance.
    13. Sinhalese extremists killed two candidates for the the district council election scheduled for next Thursdy in the southern region of this tea and spice island off the tip of India.
    14. The Indian presence is resented by Sinhalese extremists, who say it compromises the country's sovereignty.
    15. It is estimated that militants of the People's Liberation Front have killed 3,500 Sinhalese who served or supported the government.
    16. Mendis said he feared persecution or death if he returned to Sri Lanka, which is wracked by ethnic violence between guerrillas of the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamils.
    17. Sinhalese, who are mostly Buddhists, make up 75 percent of Sri Lanka's 16 million people.
    18. Police blamed that attack and a series of shootings throughout the Sinhalese heartland on the People's Liberation Front.
    19. Both Sinhalese and Moslem leaders charge that the Tamils are trying to drive out members of the other two communities to gain political advantage.
    20. Sinhalese extremists seeking to disrupt Thursday's regional elections detonated a bomb in a crowded market, killing four people, a Sri Lankan military official said.
    21. The Indian government paid Sri Lanka's top Tamil separatist leader to ensure his cooperation in an accord intended to end the rebels' war against the dominant Sinhalese, the Indian ambassador said today.
    22. In southern and central Sri Lanka, strongholds of the Sinhalese extremists, at least eight government-owned buses were set afire Thursday night and this morning, the police spokesman said.
    23. The Tigers say Sri Lanka's Tamil minority needs a separate homeland to protect it from discrimination by the Sinhalese in jobs and education.
    24. Tamils comprise 18 percent of Sri Lanka's 16 million people and the Sinhalese form 75 percent.
    25. About 8,500 people, mostly Sinhalese civilians, have been killed in the Tamil guerrilla war and massacres since 1983.
    26. Sinhalese extremists killed a police officer and wounded nine people in attacks on polling booths in what the Colombo government called an unsuccessful effort to block provincial elections.
    27. Meanwhile, militants from the majority Sinhalese community killed at least eight supporters of the governing United National Party in the southern town of Matara, police said.
    28. Militant Sinhalese said talks should wait until new parliamentary and presidential elections are held and Indian troops leave the country.
    29. Tamil radicals have been agitating for an independent homeland since 1983, claiming discrimination by the Sinhalese, who comprise 75 percent of the population.
    30. Another 6,000 have been killed since 1987 in a backlash to Tamil demands whipped up by ultranationalist Sinhalese guerrillas.
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