foreigner
英 ['fɒrɪnə]
美['fɔrənɚ]
- n. 外地人，外国人
词态变化
复数: foreigners;
英文词源
- foreigner (n.)
- early 15c., foreyner; see foreign + -er (1).
In ordinary use chiefly applied to those who speak a foreign language as their native tongue; thus in England the term is not commonly understood to include Americans. [OED]
In American English from 1620s through mid-19c., however, it was used of a person from a different colony or state. Earlier as a noun in English was simple foreign (early 14c.), probably from Old French, which used the adjective as a noun meaning "foreigner;" also "outskirts; the outside world; latrine, privy." Spelling furriner, representing pronunciation, is from 1832, originally in Irish dialect pieces but by 1840s picked up by American dialect writers (Thomas Chandler Haliburton).
双语例句
- 1. You don't sound like a foreigner talking English.
- 听你讲英语，不像是外国人。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Being a foreigner was not a handicap.
- 身为外国人并不是一个障碍。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Her family disowned her for marrying a foreigner.
- 她的家人因她嫁给了外国人而与她断绝关系。
来自《权威词典》
- 4. The fact that I was a foreigner was a big disadvantage.
- 我是外国人这事实对我十分不利。
来自《权威词典》
- 5. Being a foreigner, he did not catch on the joke.
- 他是个外国人, 未能理解这个笑话的含意.
来自《简明英汉词典》
