foreign

英 ['fɒrɪn] 美['fɔrən]

反义词

adj. 外国的；外交的；异质的；不相关的

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1. foris "out of doors, outside" => for- "outside, beyond" => foreign, forfeit, forum.
2. => strange, foreign; outer, external, outdoor, out of doors.

中文词源

foreign 外国的，陌生的

来自拉丁语foris, 门外，在外面，词源同door. 拼写受reign, sovereign等影响。后用于指陌生人，外面人。

英英释意

1. of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own);: "foreign trade"; "a foreign office"

2. relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world;: "foreign nations"; "a foreign accent"; "on business in a foreign city"

3. 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"

4. not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source;: "water free of extraneous matter"; "foreign particles in milk"

英文词源

foreign: foreign: [13] Etymologically, foreign means ‘out of doors’. It comes via Old French forein from Vulgar Latin *forānus, a derivative of Latin forās ‘out of doors, abroad’. This originated as the accusative plural of *fora, an unrecorded variant form of forēs ‘door’ (to which English door is related). The literal sense ‘outdoor’ survived into Middle English (the chambre forene mentioned by Robert of Gloucester in his Chronicle 1297, for instance, was an ‘outside loo’), but by the early 15th century the metaphorical ‘of other countries, abroad’ had more or less elbowed it aside.
=> door, forest, forfeit
foreign (adj.): c. 1300, ferren, foran, foreyne, in reference to places, "outside the boundaries of a country;" of persons, "born in another country," from Old French forain "strange, foreign; outer, external, outdoor; remote, out-of-the-way" (12c.), from Medieval Latin foraneus "on the outside, exterior," from Latin foris (adv.) "outside," literally "out of doors," related to foris "a door," from PIE *dhwor-ans-, from root *dhwer- "door, doorway" (see door).

English spelling altered 17c., perhaps by influence of reign, sovereign. Sense of "alien to one's nature, not connected with, extraneous" attested late 14c. Meaning "pertaining to another country" (as in foreign policy) is from 1610s. Replaced native fremd. Related: Foreignness.

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The 13 dead were all Costa Rican, the foreign ministry said.

Some passengers remain missing, the Costa Rican foreign ministry said, but did not specify how many.

She could improve her foreign languages.

In Lagos, foreign oil workers can pay as much as $65,000 per year in rent for a modest apartment in a safe part of town.

I've got a second interview with that big foreign accountancy firm in the city center.

Some passengers remain missing, the Costa rican foreign ministry said, but did not specify how many.

In order to maximize global welfare, every country's carbon pricing should reflect not only the purely domestic damage from emissions, but also the damage to foreign countries.

True, not all U.S.students can match theperformance of their foreign counterparts, but the American institutions do offer students from rich and poor families alike the chance to realize their full potential.

In response to the embargo, the US government enforced a series of policies designed to reduce reliance on foreign oil.

Over the years before the OPEC's embargo America had depended heavily on foreign oil/importing oil

When China starts to reduce its current foreign reserves.

The rising numbers signify growing vitality in foreign markets – when we import more stuff, it puts more cash in the hands of people around the world, and U.S. exports are rising because more foreigners have the ability to buy the things we produce and market.

Companies and individuals who don't have a strategy to export more, or to get more involved in foreign markets, or to play a role in global trade, are shutting themselves out of the lion's share of economic opportunity in our world

Retailers dealing in foreign goods and services.

To be alert to fluctuations in foreign markets

Native low-skilled workers suffer most from the competition of foreign labor.

Anyway, the next night we were all given another foreign speciality.

Now, I'd like to begin by saying that I have on occasions used an interpreter myself as a foreign correspondent.

The Indian Rupee has taken a fall on the foreign exchange market.

There has never been a better time for collaborations with foreign scientist.

Children can learn a foreign language well in six months.

Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents.

It's a bit like reading a foreign language.

Many editions contain signs, symbols and foreign words.

One solution is obviously to import foreign workers via immigration.

Our standard course guarantees a significant increase in your confidence in a foreign language, with focused teaching in all 4 skill areas----speaking, listening, reading and writing.

So I enter the city college to take English classes for foreign students.

That is where our foreign language section is.

When he reads of the threatening foreign situation, the mounting national debt, rising taxes, falling market, scarce housing, and cancer.

The report also advocates greater study of foreign languages, international affairs and the expansion of study abroad programs.

“We estimate that either eliminating a substantial labour-rights concern, such as child labour, or increasing corporate giving by about 20% results in fines that generally are 40% lower than the typical punishment for bribing foreign officials,” says one researcher.

A recent study attempts to separate them by looking at bribery prosecutions under America’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act( ' , FCPA).

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century-the period when the United States emerged as an international power.

"We estimate that either eliminating a substantial labour-rights concern, such as child labour, or increasing corporate giving by about 20% results in fines that generally are 40% lower than the typical punishment for bribing foreign officials," says one

A recent study attempts to separate them by looking at bribery prosecutions under America's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Congress has obstructed efforts to create a more straightforward visa for agricultural workers that would let foreign workers stay longer in the U.S.

Davidson's article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middle-class incomes today is largely because of the big drop in demand because of the Gre

Foreign bureaus have been savagely cut off.

It can't when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor, cheap robotics, cheap software, cheap automation and cheap genius.

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first

The trend toward "less" was not entirely foreign.

实用场景例句

Tears help to protect the eye from potentially harmful foreign bodies.: 眼泪有助于保护眼睛去除可能有害的异物。

Dishonesty is foreign to his nature.: 弄虚作假并非他的本性。

a foreign correspondent (= one who reports on foreign countries in newspapers or on television): 驻外记者

foreign holidays: 外国假日

You could tell she was foreign by the way she dressed.: 从她的穿着就可以看出她是外国人。

foreign affairs/news/policy/trade: 外交事务；外国新闻；对外政策 / 贸易

foreign aid: 外援

a foreign-owned company: 外资公司

a foreign accent/language/student: 外国口音 / 语言 / 学生

...the German foreign minister...: 德国外交部长

I am the foreign correspondent in Washington of La Tribuna newspaper of Honduras.: 我是洪都拉斯《论坛报》驻华盛顿的记者。

The patient's immune system would reject the transplanted organ as a foreign object.: 病人的免疫系统会对移植器官产生异质排斥反应。

The very notion of price competition is foreign to many schools...: 价格竞争这个概念对于许多学校都很陌生。

The whole thing is foreign to us.: 我们对整件事不了解。

She was on her first foreign holiday without her parents.: 她第一次在没有父母陪伴的情况下自己去国外度假。

...in Frankfurt, where a quarter of the population is foreign...: 在有四分之一的人口是外来移民的法兰克福

I'm not satisfied with his circular explanation.: 我不满意他拐弯抹角的解释.

A foreign language cannot be learned rapidly, it must be learned step by step.: 外语并非在短时间内就能学会, 学外语是一个循序渐进的过程.

She has mastered a foreign language by aid of a grammar and dictionary.: 她借助语法书和词典掌握了一门外语.

The library contains a large number of foreign language reference books.: 图书馆有大量的外文参考书.

This country adopts a liberal foreign policy.: 该国采用的是开放的外交政策.

Where can I exchange my American money for foreign money?: 我在哪儿可以把美元兑换成外币?

China needs to assimilate a good deal of foreign progressive culture, but she must not swallow anything and everything uncritically.: 中国需要大量吸收外国的进步文化, 但决不能无批判地兼收并蓄.

It's no good taking over the experience of foreign countries uncritically.: 决不可生吞活剥地搬用外国的经验.

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