go native

动词 v.

中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.

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

— […]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.
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. idiomatic

— […] 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