aboriginal

Compared meaning: someone born in a place, or an indigenous inhabitant (noun).

比较义项：本地出生者 / 土著居民（名词）。

• native

  A neutral, everyday word meaning simply someone born in a particular place; it carries no historical or indigenous connotation and works for anyone, recent immigrants' children included.

  中性、常见的词，仅表示某人出生于某地，不带任何历史或土著含义，即使是近期移民的后代也可以这样称呼。

  She is a native of Boston, though she has lived in Paris for a decade.

  她是波士顿本地人，不过已经在巴黎住了十年。

• aboriginal 本词

  Refers to a person or animal whose ancestors were the original, indigenous inhabitants of a place before others arrived; more formal and anthropological, often capitalized when naming a specific indigenous people.

  指某地最早、土著的原住民（人或动物），带有其祖先早于其他人到来的含义；语气更正式、偏人类学色彩，特指某一土著民族时常大写。

  The land had been home to aboriginals long before European settlers arrived.

  早在欧洲殖民者到来之前，这片土地就已是土著居民的家园。

Native and aboriginal can both mean a person from a place. Native is neutral and everyday, meaning simply someone born there. Aboriginal means someone whose ancestors were the original inhabitants of a place, a more formal, historical word. Their adjective senses are not compared here.

这两个词都可指“本地出身的人”，但语气不同：native 是中性常用词，只说明某人出生于某地；aboriginal 特指某地最早、土著的原住民，语气更正式、带人类学色彩，常用于历史或殖民语境，指人时需谨慎使用，也可指动植物。这里不比较 native 作形容词表示“母语的”（如 native language）以及 aboriginal 作形容词表示“土著的”（如 aboriginal art）的用法。