alien

• adj. 外国的；相异的，性质不同的；不相容的
• n. 外国人，外侨；外星人
• vt. 让渡，转让
• n. (Alien)人名；(法)阿利安

拉丁词。词根al, 其它，同else.

1. a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country

2. anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found

3. a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere

alien

alien: [14] The essential notion contained in alien is of ‘otherness’. Its ultimate source is Latin alius ‘other’ (which is related to English else). From this was formed a Latin adjective aliēnus ‘belonging to another person or place’, which passed into English via Old French alien. In Middle English an alternative version alient arose (in the same way as ancient, pageant, and tyrant came from earlier ancien, pagin, and tyran), but this died out during the 17th century.

The verb alienate ‘estrange’ or ‘transfer to another’s ownership’ entered the language in the mid 16th century, eventually replacing an earlier verb alien (source of alienable and inalienable).
=> alibi, else

alien (adj.)

mid-14c., "strange, foreign," from Old French alien "alien, strange, foreign; an alien, stranger, foreigner," from Latin alienus "of or belonging to another, foreign, alien, strange," also, as a noun, "a stranger, foreigner," adjectival form of alius "(an)other" (see alias (adv.)). Meaning "not of the Earth" first recorded 1920. An alien priory (c. 1500) is one owing obedience to a mother abbey in a foreign country.

alien (n.)

"foreigner, citizen of a foreign land," from alien (adj.). In the science fiction sense, from 1953.

stranger, foreigner, alien, immigrant

这些名词均有"陌生人，外人"之意。

stranger： 指对当地的生活习惯、语言等不熟悉，或为某团体不熟的人，也指不认识的人。

foreigner： 指在异国作短期访问或长期居住的外国人。

alien： 指没有成为侨居国正式公民的移民。

immigrant： 指在别国定居并取得所在国国籍的外国人。

As they walk around a playground or other area, text, video or audio pops up at various points to help them try to figure out why aliens were in the schoolyard.

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They find the city alien to them.

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As a possible home for alien life, it has been voted the planet least likely to succeed.

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Both TV commercials and the supermarkets are alien to them.

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The only major objection came from Justice Antonin Scalia,who offered an even more robust defense of state privileges going back to the alien and Sedition Acts.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

The only major objection came from Justice Antonin Scalia, who offered an even more robust defense of state privileges going back to the Alien and Sedition Acts.

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Cruelty was quite alien to him.

他绝无残忍之心。

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alien beings from outer space

外星人

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an illegal alien

非法外侨

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aliens from outer space

外星人

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an alien environment

陌生的环境

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In a world that had suddenly become alien and dangerous, he was her only security.

在一个突然变得陌生而危险的世界里，他是她唯一的守护神。

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an alien culture

异族文化

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The idea is alien to our religion.

这种思想与我们的宗教不相容。

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His work offers an insight into an alien culture.

他的作品能让人们对一种异域文化产生较深入的了解。

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Such an attitude is alien to most businessmen.

大多数商界人士都会对这样的态度感到陌生。

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Both women had hired illegal aliens for child care...

两个女人都曾雇过非法入境者照看孩子。

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When war broke out, he was interned as an enemy alien.

战争爆发时，他作为敌国人士遭到关押。

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He said they were opposed to the presence of alien forces in the region.

他说他们反对外国军队驻扎在该地区。

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The women were alien and creatures with ugly desires she could not bear to think about.

这些妇女都是些奇形怪状的原始人,她们那些龌龊的欲念,她想也不忍去想.

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He said, I am an alien and a stranger among you.

他说:“我在你们当中是局外人,是陌生人. ”

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As every alien pen hath got my use.

以致凡陌生的笔都把我仿效.

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Fred watched as more alien drones crystallized into triangular lattices.

佛瑞德观察到更多的外星人无人机结合成了三角格子.

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Which party is an alien party?

什么是异党?

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You should pay attention to rejection reactions when transplanting an alien organ.

异体间器官移植要特别注意排异反应.

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So, the Chinese must see him clear serve as the place of the alien and foreground.

所以, 中国人必须看清自己作为异类的处境和前景.对于西方富人俱乐部的会员们来说,中国当然是个异类.

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Finally, the ecologic mechanisms that may influence the diffuse of invasive alien plant were also discussed.

据此, 文中还探讨了影响外来入侵植物扩散力的生态机制.

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When an alien finally walked into the conference room everything changed.

最后一个外星人走进了会议室,一切才发生了改变.

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The Emperor's forces rediscovered human worlds, cast out alien oppressors, and claimed new territory aplenty.

帝皇的军队东征西讨,开疆拓土,重新发现一度失落的人类世界, 驱逐异星压迫者.

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While the alien was buying a souvenir, the girl called the police.

外星人买纪念品时, 那女孩给警察打了电话.

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What is your name on the Alien Registration Card?

你永久居留证内的姓名是什麽?

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Jim is an alien in this film.

吉姆在这部电影里是个外星人.

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Organizational culture is a alien concept to Chinese government nowadays.

目前,组织文化对于政府部门来说是一个新概念.

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