我要移民新加坡.这句话应该怎么讲呢?求教,然后migrant和expat什么区别?还有immigrate和emigrate和migrate有什么区别?求教英语大神.

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我要移民新加坡.这句话应该怎么讲呢?求教,然后migrant 和 expat 什么区别?
还有 immigrate 和 emigrate 和migrate 有什么区别?求教英语大神.

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I want to migrate to Singapore!
immigrate: 移居入境；To enter and settle in a country or region to which one is not native.
Britain immigrated many colonists to the New World.
英国把大量殖民者移居到了新大陆
emigrate：移居出境,也就是通常说的移民（v）；To leave one country or region to settle in another.
His family emigrated to the U.S. last winter.
他们一家去年冬天移民到美国了.
migrate：移动, 移往, 移植, 随季节而移居, (鸟类的)迁徙
After the Nazis came to power in Germany, many scientists emigrated (that is, left Germany).
纳粹夺取了德国的政权之后,许多科学家都迁走了（也就是说,离开了德国）.
前两个意思相反,一个是移进,一个是移出,而migrate可以说是另外两个得上义词.
Expat可指任何居留在本国之外的人!