foreign
adj. 外国的; 外交的; 异质的; 陌生的
Something or someone that is foreign comes from or relates to a country that is not your own.
...in Frankfurt, where a quarter of the population is foreign...
在有四分之一的人口是外来移民的法兰克福
She was on her first foreign holiday without her parents.
她第一次在没有父母陪伴的情况下自己去国外度假。
In politics and journalism, foreign is used to describe people, jobs, and activities relating to countries that are not the country of the person or government concerned.
...the German foreign minister...
德国外交部长
I am the foreign correspondent in Washington of La Tribuna newspaper of Honduras.
我是洪都拉斯《论坛报》驻华盛顿的记者。
A foreign object is something that has got into something else, usually by accident, and should not be there.
The patient's immune system would reject the transplanted organ as a foreign object.
病人的免疫系统会对移植器官产生异质排斥反应。
Something that is foreign to a particular person or thing is not typical of them or is unknown to them.
The very notion of price competition is foreign to many schools...
价格竞争这个概念对于许多学校都很陌生。
The whole thing is foreign to us.
我们对整件事不了解。
1. of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own);
2. relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world;
3. not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something;
4. not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source;
A foreign language cannot be learned rapidly, it must be learned step by step.
外语并非在短时间内就能学会, 学外语是一个循序渐进的过程.
She has mastered a foreign language by aid of a grammar and dictionary.
她借助语法书和词典掌握了一门外语.
The library contains a large number of foreign language reference books.
图书馆有大量的外文参考书.
This country adopts a liberal foreign policy.
该国采用的是开放的外交政策.
Where can I exchange my American money for foreign money?
我在哪儿可以把美元兑换成外币?
adj. 外国的;外来的
alienoutlandishexternalextraneous
其他释义
unknownoutwardalienexoticexteriorexternaloutsideoverseasadventitious