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a.li.en5eI7li7Enadjcoming from a different country, race, or group; foreign来自不同国家（或种族、群体）的，外国的It's a country that has had an alien government and an alien language imposed on it by force.那是个被强加了一个外国政府和一种外国语言的国家。When I first went to New York, it all felt very alien (=strange) to me.我第一次去纽约时，觉得一切都很奇怪。(fig.) I find the idea of sending young children off to boarding school totally alien (=unnatural).我觉得把你的小孩子送到寄宿学校的想法是完全不近人情的。(fig.) The practice of having a siesta after lunch is alien (=strange or not familiar) to the English.午饭后午睡一会儿的做法对英国人来说是新奇的。"Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, / She stood in tears among the alien corn" (from the poem Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats, 1820)“露丝忧郁的心，使她不禁落泪，/站在异邦的谷田里想着家。”(选自约翰·济慈的诗歌《夜莺颂》)
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