foreign
adj. 外國的; 外交的; 異質的; 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來移民的法蘭克福
She was on her first foreign holiday without her parents.
她第一次在沒有父母陪伴的情況下自己去國外度假。
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...
德國外交部長
I am the foreign correspondent in Washington of La Tribuna newspaper of Honduras.
我是宏都拉斯《論壇報》駐華盛頓的記者。
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.
病人的免疫系統會對移植器官產生異質排斥反應。
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...
價格競爭這個概念對於許多學校都很陌生。
The whole thing is foreign to us.
我們對整件事不瞭解。
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.
外語並非在短時間內就能學會, 學外語是一個循序漸進的過程.
She has mastered a foreign language by aid of a grammar and dictionary.
她藉助語法書和詞典掌握了一門外語.
The library contains a large number of foreign language reference books.
圖書館有大量的外文參考書.
This country adopts a liberal foreign policy.
該國採用的是開放的外交政策.
Where can I exchange my American money for foreign money?
我在哪兒可以把美元兌換成外幣?
adj. 外國的;外來的
alienoutlandishexternalextraneous
其他釋義
unknownoutwardalienexoticexteriorexternaloutsideoverseasadventitious