第1个回答 2015-10-11
【foreign】意思与用法
1. ADJ 外国的;来自国外的
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。
...a foreign language...
一门外语
2. ADJ 外交的;外国的;对外的
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。
...the effects of US foreign policy in the 'free world'.
美国对外政策在“自由世界”的影响
3. ADJ 异质的;外来的
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。
4. ADJ-GRADED 陌生的;不熟悉的;非典型的
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。