foreign
UK ['fɒr.ən] US ['fɔ:r-] adjective
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■belonging or connected to a country which is not your own 外国的•Spain was the first foreign country she had visited.西班牙是她访问过的第一个海外国家。 •foreign languages外语 •His work provided him with the opportunity for a lot of foreign travel.他的工作给他提供了很多出国旅行的机会。 foreign to formal
■Something can be described as foreign to a particular person if they do not know about it or it is not within their experience 对（某人）来说是陌生的•The whole concept of democracy, she claimed, was utterly foreign to the present government.她声称，民主这一整套概念对于现任政府来说是极其陌生的。 ■describes an object or substance which has entered something else, possibly by accident, and does not belong there 异质的；外来的•a foreign object/substance异物 •foreign matter异质 |