Alien
['eɪlɪən] or [ˈeliən,ˈeljən]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) transfer property or ownership; 'The will aliened the property to the heirs'.
(adj.) being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; 'alien customs'; 'exotic plants in a greenhouse'; 'exotic cuisine' .
(adj.) not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something; 'an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism'; 'the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper'; 'jealousy is foreign to her nature' .
爱德温錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.
(a.) Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion.
(n.) A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.
(n.) One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.
(v. t.) To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership.
錄入:普勒斯顿
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Foreign, not native.[2]. Estranged, differing, remote, unallied, separated, unconnected.
n. Foreigner, stranger.
錄入:沃尔特
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Foreign, strange, undomesticated, inappropriate, irrelevant, impertinent
ANT:Pertinent, essential, proper, appropriate, relevant, germane, {[afcin]?},apropos, naturalized
編輯:沃尔夫冈
解釋/意思:
adj. foreign: different in nature: adverse to.—n. one belonging to another country: one not entitled to the rights of citizenship.—n. Al′ienage state of being an alien.
德斯蒙德錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of a stranger pleasing you, denotes good health and pleasant surroundings; if he displeases you, look for disappointments. To dream you are an alien, denotes abiding friendships.
整理:特蕾西
娱乐性解釋/意思:
n. An American sovereign in his probationary state.
校對:南森
例句/造句/用法:
- You are no child that one should not speak of what exists; but I only uttered the word--the thing, I assure you, is alien to my whole life and views. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- In Britain, England carried on her back the Hanoverian dominions in Germany, Scotland, the profoundly alien Welsh and the hostile and Catholic Irish. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- To those of my own house I am no alien, which I am to these English clowns. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Not merely for its general ideas and their artistic presentation but for its models of law it went to the records of alien peoples. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- A small band of alien herdsmen, says Sir Mark Sykes, wandering unchecked through crusades and counter-crusades, principalities, empires, and states. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- She opened her eyes and saw the streets passing--the familiar alien streets. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Let me hear you say, in the voice natural to you, and not in that alien tone, 'Mon ami, je vous pardonne. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Under such conditions, men take revenge, as it were, upon the alien and hostile environment by cultivating contempt for it, by giving it a bad name. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The Greeks never loved Nature in her grandest moods, and—saving ?schylus—both shaggy mountain and roaring waters were alien to their genius. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The lad is a mak' of an alien amang us. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Any cursed alien blood, Jew, Corsican, or Gypsy. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Thus will Dejah Thoris die, and her fate will be sealed by the first alien foot that crosses the threshold of Issus. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Such men regarded alien populations abroad merely as unimported slaves. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And I do not want a stranger--unsympathising, alien, different from me; I want my kindred: those with whom I have full fellow- feeling. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Greek achievement in civilization was native; the civilization of the Alexandrians and Romans was inherited from alien sources. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- In their own estimation they were aliens in the country which had given them birth. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- That savage tribes regard aliens and enemies as synonymous is not accidental. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
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