foreigner
英['f?r?n?]
美['f?r?n?]
- n. 外地人，外國人
詞態變化
復數:?foreigners;
英文詞源
- 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).
雙語例句
- 1. You don't sound like a foreigner talking English.
- 聽你講英語，不像是外國人。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Being a foreigner was not a handicap.
- 身為外國人并不是一個障礙。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Her family disowned her for marrying a foreigner.
- 她的家人因她嫁給了外國人而與她斷絕關系。
來自《權威詞典》
- 4. The fact that I was a foreigner was a big disadvantage.
- 我是外國人這事實對我十分不利。
來自《權威詞典》
- 5. Being a foreigner, he did not catch on the joke.
- 他是個外國人, 未能理解這個笑話的含意.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》