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. 外国的;来自国外的
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...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
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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。
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...a foreign language.
一门外语
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It is the largest ever private foreign investment in the Bolivian mining sector.
这是玻利维亚矿业史上最大的一次来自国外的私人投资。
SYN alien, overseas, exotic, unknown
2 ADJ [ADJ n] 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. 外交的;外国的;对外的
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...the German foreign minister.
德国外交部长
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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。
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...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 [usually ADJ n] 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. 异质的;外来的 [formal]
SYN unassimilable, external, extraneous, outside
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. 陌生的;不熟悉的;非典型的
SYN unfamiliar, strange, unknown, alien
| Thesaurus | foreign Also look up: |
| ADJ. | alien, exotic, strange; (ant.) domestic, native 1 3 4 |
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