Definition of foreign in English:

foreign

adjective ˈfɒrɪnˈfɔrən

1Of, from, in, or characteristic of a country or language other than one's own.
外国的，来自外国的；外国语的
foreign currency
a man with a foreign accent
Example sentencesExamples
- Often students are barely able to use their mother-tongue but yet they are still forced to try to use the foreign language of English.
- The picture of foreign languages was less clear with French and German seeing significant falls in interest but more students taking up Spanish.
- Even when they are obliged to live abroad for years they refuse either to accustom themselves to foreign food or to learn foreign languages.
- And a beautiful thing, for me, was that most spoke with foreign accents and in foreign languages.
- The problem arises is that you character talks gibberish and it sounds like some foreign space language.
- Her husband plans to continue working one week a month in Britain, while she has trained to teach English as a foreign language as well as running the guest house.
- Nearly all books are in Chinese, except in Shanghai and Beijing, where foreign language books are also available.
- He noted for some foreign languages there are too few students signed up to offer the course at an individual high school.
- I can even do it in foreign language script and characters such as Japanese and Arabic.
- But even cutting subjects like music, art and foreign languages has a direct impact on the core subjects.
- My father was a foreign language major at Yenching University.
- Some third grade children study at special hagwons in order to get into high schools specializing in foreign languages or science.
- They study mythology, gardening, cooking, foreign languages, history, botany and physics.
- My life has been spent pretty equally between the two countries, and I flatter myself I speak both languages without any foreign accent.
- But who on earth goes with the lead on foreign languages when the story also says that the current exams system is going to be dumped?
- Several years ago, I wrote to the local press concerning the need to teach Spanish as our first foreign language in all schools, but to no avail.
- Thousands of foreigners, with foreign currency and language, needed to have a special market set up.
- It was felt to be most appropriate for practical subjects, such as design and technology, and least helpful in the case of maths and foreign languages.
- And today he's a foreign language major at the University of Central Florida.
- The extra characters represent characters from foreign languages and special symbols for simple pictures.
Synonyms
overseas, distant, remote, far off, far flung, external, outside
alien, non-native, adventitious
1. 1.1 Dealing with or relating to other countries.
  外交的，涉外的；对外的
  foreign policy
  外交政策。
  Example sentencesExamples
  And I love foreign policy, because of the adventure and because of the stakes.
  Len Downey, will this tragedy change the way you deploy your foreign correspondents and the kind of risks that they will take?
  We've got a great new younger generation of foreign correspondents.
  Such epistemological conundrums are not limited to foreign policy.
  He was trying to bring the announcement, the pronunciation of honesty and truth to American and world foreign policy.
  No. Are they offering us a new foreign policy or another way of dealing with dictators and terrorists?
  But it was only recently, after the end of the Cold War, that we began letting the vice squad run foreign policy.
  Lawyers and those dealing with foreign affairs have a smooth week ahead.
  You gave the president kind of a mixed grade on foreign policy.
  The bad news didn't end with the foreign policy.
  To listen to his high-level critics, one might think that no American president had ever proposed an interventionist foreign policy before.
  A treaty dealt with frontier issues and declared that Tibet was to have no dealings with foreign powers without Britain's consent.
  Taubman recounts all of his subject's most significant dealings, both in terms of foreign and domestic policy.
  Well, I don't take polls in politics now, so I certainly wouldn't be taking polls in foreign policy.
  A lot of political operatives and pollsters will tell you this presidential election will hinge on foreign policy.
  I think that, ultimately though, that's there a genuine difference as to how we operate our foreign policy.
  Speaking about foreign policy, he is also eager to prove himself as a very open man, as a man who will be very active in his dialogue with the West.
  To truly understand America's foreign policy during the past 12 years, one must look at more than wars.
  That's something that I have felt was in order for a long time on foreign policy, and now I think he has a clear chance of doing that.
  If blame were to be justly apportioned, it would have to extend into the distant past of American foreign policy formation.
2. 1.2 Of or belonging to another district or area.
  外地的；不属于本地区的
  a visit to a foreign clan
  对外族的访问。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The park has also meant a significant tourism boost to the West Kildare area with Irish and foreign tourists coming in increasing numbers.
  Resistance fighters have frequently targeted foreign planes in the area, which is an insurgent stronghold.
  But that has still left many gray areas, especially for foreign investors seeking joint venture partners.
  To foreign dominions, which belong to a prince who succeeds to the throne of England, this Court has no power to send any writ of any kind.
  One foreign family in the area had actively participated in the festivities since they arrived last year.
  Consider partnering with foreign distributors or sales reps, for example.
  The estate is now back to its original 80,000 acres - the largest area owned by a foreign citizen in the United Kingdom.
  The report also said that the lack of broadband lines outside large urban areas was hampering foreign investment in the regions.
  Other models may have been sold in Canada if a retailer bought them from foreign distributors.
  Wilson, who was 30 when he died, may have had dealings with foreign businesses and investors early in his career when he was based in Edinburgh.
  But the society is regaining its vigor, with relatively safe areas attracting foreign tourists.
  Yet these are precisely the areas where foreign students make the biggest contribution to American society.
  He gave only vague answers to questions on the alleged presence of foreign troops in combat areas such as Sulu Island.
  The central business district is a diverse area of retail, financial and foreign companies.
  A central pot to pay for healthcare for foreign visitors had been distributed to local health services on the basis of historic payments.
  Capital hedging has been identified as one of the biggest areas of concern by foreign bankers.
  The regency's plan to fight the move has gained support from 200 industrial firms in the area that employ foreign workers.
  Then I did distribution for foreign films in Japan, mainly gay films.
  The explosions occurred simultaneously late last night among areas popular with foreign tourists.
  In the first place most of the opium at Lintin did not belong to the foreign merchants in India, and they had no legal right to surrender it.
3. 1.3 Coming or introduced from outside.
  外来的，从外面引进的
  the quotation is a foreign element imported into the work
  这段引文是从别的资料引入书中的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The earpiece of the Symbolic Order introduces something foreign into his head - it is language.
  They mix and match a wide range of disparate foreign elements to create a melting pot of human and mechanical voices, jingles, sounds and samples.
  The process was helped, after the mid-sixteenth century, by the arrival of a new foreign element.
  At any time, simply by looking at our hand or our leg, one can experience the feeling that our body does not belongs to us, that it is a foreign object, outside ourselves.
  They are the unwanted foreign element, that which is abnormal in comparison to the protagonist's normal state.
  Some of the implant techniques introduced foreign material into the body, with occasionally horrifying results.
  Lawyers protested that it would expose clients to unreasonable pressure, and introduce a foreign element into the court.
  I don't think that it is a good idea to introduce any foreign substance that could adversely affect the development of a baby without a very compelling reason.
  The result is a wonderful collage of elements, both foreign and indigenous to the peninsula.
  And that means food without all the weird foreign genes running around in it.
  She struggled in vain against the darkness surrounding her, but the pain of a foreign element inside her prevented it.
  Electroporation is a common method to introduce foreign molecules into cells, but its molecular basis is poorly understood.
  The body possesses an innate tendency to reject and destroy any foreign material introduced into it.
  This label encompasses processes such as deleting a gene from or introducing a foreign gene into a plant's DNA.
  I carefully surveyed the area for footprints, foreign items and so on, then photographed the scene.
  Now introduce two types of foreign elements - lets say bacteria and viruses.
2Strange and unfamiliar.
陌生的，不熟悉的
I suppose this all feels pretty foreign to you
我想这一切都让你感到相当陌生。
Example sentencesExamples
- It was a tough country and the animals and plants in this country were totally foreign to them.
- There is a tendency to regard extremism and reaction within a part of the Muslim community in the west as something intrinsically strange or foreign.
- I got out of this strange and foreign bed to wander into the glass tiled halls filled with black marble.
- It felt too strange, too foreign, like she'd forsaken all of her unknown past.
- They stand out like the Harbour Bridge in their getups and habits, which are foreign to most Aussies.
- We are free and the consciousness of the material world of the senses stands before us as something strange and foreign which no longer wears us down.
- She stared at his hand as if it were some strange foreign object and reluctantly shook it.
- It was so strange and foreign a concept that the very thought scared me more than anything in my entire period of life.
- Yet, aren't new influences that seem foreign and unfamiliar also agents of positive change?
- Already, the traditional winter is something foreign to many British children.
- The sunlight seemed strange, foreign somehow, as if filtered through a glass.
- It's perfectly natural that it would feel kinda weird and foreign the first time.
- All the plants were strange and unfamiliar, the steamy smells equally foreign.
- It is regarded as strange and intrinsically foreign.
- As the metal slices through my wrist, I can only feel the strange, foreign feeling of dizziness.
- The deeply forgotten greets us as foreign but also makes strange the familiar.
- We're so used to the idea of the media as something that we're privileged to have, that the idea of it actively coming to us is foreign and strange.
- That was the only word that could describe it, weird, or strange, or unknown, foreign.
- Your flashy world of moving pictures and gender equality is strange and foreign to me.
- It isn't an unpleasant sensation, there is no pain to it, but it is so strange and foreign it causes me brief alarm.
Synonyms
unfamiliar, unknown, unheard of, strange, alien, exotic, outlandish, odd, peculiar, curious, bizarre, weird, queer, funny
novel, new
1. 2.1foreign to Not belonging to or characteristic of.
  不属于…的，与…相悖的
  crime and brutality are foreign to our nature
  犯罪和暴行与我们的本性和国家相背。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Thereafter, when Yohanan came to her, Miriam expressed astonishment at behavior so foreign to his character.
  They have tried to persuade society to reject practices that are foreign to Islam.
  For a voter to be guided only by the fundamentality of human life risks falling into a radicalism that is foreign to the Catholic moral tradition.
  We see wood take forms that are completely foreign to it, like a chair that's made with spindles and dowels.
  Any use that is not utterly foreign to its character as a motor vehicle is, I consider, covered by the words.
  Cowardice is a concept foreign to your very being, and by nature you are something of an adventurer.
  Okay, if politicking based on one's beliefs is foreign to Inuit, why is he doing it right now?
  To deprive someone of their liberty without telling them the charge or the evidence is completely foreign to our system of justice.
  If we take a look at the human rights history in Indonesia, the issue of human rights should not have been foreign to the country.
  The idea of willing mutual submission in love is largely foreign to our minds.
  The so-called New Zealand way of life is becoming increasingly foreign to a growing number.
  Some commentators believe soccer is fundamentally foreign to the American psyche and will never catch on.
  They played with a clarity of intention foreign to the home side, an economical set of ideas that were always on the money.
  As a matter of style, Buckland and Newton work in a tradition largely foreign to North America.
  Synonyms
  irrelevant, not pertinent, inappropriate, inapposite, extraneous, unrelated, unconnected
  outside, distant from, remote from, disconnected from, different from
  rare extrinsic

Derivatives

foreignness

nounˈfɒrɪnnəsˈfɔrənˌnəs

However, having struggled with the nuances of the American language, I have found it more beneficial to adapt to my alien environment rather than advertise my foreignness with a pint of beer and a fresh rendition of ‘Rule Britannia’.
Example sentencesExamples
- There was this very basic familiarity - and then utter foreignness.
- But the fact that they were able to make their displeasure felt in a way that deterred further crackdowns is a testament not to their foreignness but to their newfound political clout.
- The foreignness sharpened his wonderful gift for description, the intensely alive portrayal of character, what he called ‘the experience of the encounter’.
- You can be born in Swindon and still have that sense of slight foreignness, alienation and critical detachment from the society in which you live; a sense that is essential to being an intellectual.

Origin

Middle English foren, forein, from Old French forein, forain, based on Latin foras, foris 'outside', from fores 'door'. The current spelling arose in the 16th century, by association with sovereign.

forest from Middle English:
You would not necessarily link forest and foreign, but they have the same Latin root. Forest came via French from the Latin phrase forestis silva, literally ‘wood outside’, from foris ‘out of doors, outside’ and silva ‘a wood’. The first word moved into English and became our ‘forest’. In early use forest had a special legal sense. It was an area, usually belonging to the king, that was intended for hunting, a mixture of woodland, heath, scrub, and farmland not as thickly wooded as forests today. It had its own forest laws, and officers appointed to enforce them. The New Forest in Hampshire was reserved as Crown property by William the Conqueror in 1079 as a royal hunting area, and still has its own rules and officers, or verderers (mid 16th century), a word that comes from Latin viridis, ‘green’—compare the expression greenwood (Middle English). Forfeit (Middle English) which originally meant ‘a crime or offence’, with the meaning of a fine or penalty developing from this, is also from foris, as are forum, literally ‘what is out of doors’ in Latin, but used to mean ‘market place’ and then ‘meeting place’. Forensic (mid 17th century) comes from Latin forensis ‘in open court, public’, from forum. Because we so often hear the expression forensic science in the context of solving a mystery, it is sometimes forgotten that the term means the application of medical knowledge to support the law.

Rhymes

Corin, florin

Definition of foreign in US English:

foreign

adjectiveˈfôrənˈfɔrən

1Of, from, in, or characteristic of a country or language other than one's own.
外国的，来自外国的；外国语的
a foreign language
外语。
Example sentencesExamples
- Several years ago, I wrote to the local press concerning the need to teach Spanish as our first foreign language in all schools, but to no avail.
- Her husband plans to continue working one week a month in Britain, while she has trained to teach English as a foreign language as well as running the guest house.
- The extra characters represent characters from foreign languages and special symbols for simple pictures.
- Thousands of foreigners, with foreign currency and language, needed to have a special market set up.
- Even when they are obliged to live abroad for years they refuse either to accustom themselves to foreign food or to learn foreign languages.
- I can even do it in foreign language script and characters such as Japanese and Arabic.
- Some third grade children study at special hagwons in order to get into high schools specializing in foreign languages or science.
- He noted for some foreign languages there are too few students signed up to offer the course at an individual high school.
- And a beautiful thing, for me, was that most spoke with foreign accents and in foreign languages.
- The picture of foreign languages was less clear with French and German seeing significant falls in interest but more students taking up Spanish.
- My life has been spent pretty equally between the two countries, and I flatter myself I speak both languages without any foreign accent.
- It was felt to be most appropriate for practical subjects, such as design and technology, and least helpful in the case of maths and foreign languages.
- My father was a foreign language major at Yenching University.
- But who on earth goes with the lead on foreign languages when the story also says that the current exams system is going to be dumped?
- And today he's a foreign language major at the University of Central Florida.
- Nearly all books are in Chinese, except in Shanghai and Beijing, where foreign language books are also available.
- The problem arises is that you character talks gibberish and it sounds like some foreign space language.
- But even cutting subjects like music, art and foreign languages has a direct impact on the core subjects.
- They study mythology, gardening, cooking, foreign languages, history, botany and physics.
- Often students are barely able to use their mother-tongue but yet they are still forced to try to use the foreign language of English.
Synonyms
overseas, distant, remote, far off, far flung, external, outside
1. 1.1 Dealing with or relating to other countries.
  外交的，涉外的；对外的
  foreign policy
  外交政策。
  Example sentencesExamples
  But it was only recently, after the end of the Cold War, that we began letting the vice squad run foreign policy.
  To truly understand America's foreign policy during the past 12 years, one must look at more than wars.
  I think that, ultimately though, that's there a genuine difference as to how we operate our foreign policy.
  Len Downey, will this tragedy change the way you deploy your foreign correspondents and the kind of risks that they will take?
  Lawyers and those dealing with foreign affairs have a smooth week ahead.
  Such epistemological conundrums are not limited to foreign policy.
  To listen to his high-level critics, one might think that no American president had ever proposed an interventionist foreign policy before.
  We've got a great new younger generation of foreign correspondents.
  No. Are they offering us a new foreign policy or another way of dealing with dictators and terrorists?
  He was trying to bring the announcement, the pronunciation of honesty and truth to American and world foreign policy.
  Taubman recounts all of his subject's most significant dealings, both in terms of foreign and domestic policy.
  Speaking about foreign policy, he is also eager to prove himself as a very open man, as a man who will be very active in his dialogue with the West.
  You gave the president kind of a mixed grade on foreign policy.
  That's something that I have felt was in order for a long time on foreign policy, and now I think he has a clear chance of doing that.
  If blame were to be justly apportioned, it would have to extend into the distant past of American foreign policy formation.
  And I love foreign policy, because of the adventure and because of the stakes.
  A treaty dealt with frontier issues and declared that Tibet was to have no dealings with foreign powers without Britain's consent.
  The bad news didn't end with the foreign policy.
  A lot of political operatives and pollsters will tell you this presidential election will hinge on foreign policy.
  Well, I don't take polls in politics now, so I certainly wouldn't be taking polls in foreign policy.
2. 1.2 Of or belonging to another district or area.
  外地的；不属于本地区的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Then I did distribution for foreign films in Japan, mainly gay films.
  A central pot to pay for healthcare for foreign visitors had been distributed to local health services on the basis of historic payments.
  But that has still left many gray areas, especially for foreign investors seeking joint venture partners.
  He gave only vague answers to questions on the alleged presence of foreign troops in combat areas such as Sulu Island.
  Resistance fighters have frequently targeted foreign planes in the area, which is an insurgent stronghold.
  In the first place most of the opium at Lintin did not belong to the foreign merchants in India, and they had no legal right to surrender it.
  The estate is now back to its original 80,000 acres - the largest area owned by a foreign citizen in the United Kingdom.
  The park has also meant a significant tourism boost to the West Kildare area with Irish and foreign tourists coming in increasing numbers.
  The explosions occurred simultaneously late last night among areas popular with foreign tourists.
  Other models may have been sold in Canada if a retailer bought them from foreign distributors.
  Wilson, who was 30 when he died, may have had dealings with foreign businesses and investors early in his career when he was based in Edinburgh.
  Yet these are precisely the areas where foreign students make the biggest contribution to American society.
  The central business district is a diverse area of retail, financial and foreign companies.
  The report also said that the lack of broadband lines outside large urban areas was hampering foreign investment in the regions.
  Capital hedging has been identified as one of the biggest areas of concern by foreign bankers.
  One foreign family in the area had actively participated in the festivities since they arrived last year.
  To foreign dominions, which belong to a prince who succeeds to the throne of England, this Court has no power to send any writ of any kind.
  But the society is regaining its vigor, with relatively safe areas attracting foreign tourists.
  The regency's plan to fight the move has gained support from 200 industrial firms in the area that employ foreign workers.
  Consider partnering with foreign distributors or sales reps, for example.
3. 1.3 Coming or introduced from outside.
  外来的，从外面引进的
  the quotation is a foreign element imported into the work
  这段引文是从别的资料引入书中的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This label encompasses processes such as deleting a gene from or introducing a foreign gene into a plant's DNA.
  And that means food without all the weird foreign genes running around in it.
  She struggled in vain against the darkness surrounding her, but the pain of a foreign element inside her prevented it.
  The result is a wonderful collage of elements, both foreign and indigenous to the peninsula.
  I don't think that it is a good idea to introduce any foreign substance that could adversely affect the development of a baby without a very compelling reason.
  They are the unwanted foreign element, that which is abnormal in comparison to the protagonist's normal state.
  The process was helped, after the mid-sixteenth century, by the arrival of a new foreign element.
  At any time, simply by looking at our hand or our leg, one can experience the feeling that our body does not belongs to us, that it is a foreign object, outside ourselves.
  Now introduce two types of foreign elements - lets say bacteria and viruses.
  I carefully surveyed the area for footprints, foreign items and so on, then photographed the scene.
  Some of the implant techniques introduced foreign material into the body, with occasionally horrifying results.
  Lawyers protested that it would expose clients to unreasonable pressure, and introduce a foreign element into the court.
  The body possesses an innate tendency to reject and destroy any foreign material introduced into it.
  They mix and match a wide range of disparate foreign elements to create a melting pot of human and mechanical voices, jingles, sounds and samples.
  Electroporation is a common method to introduce foreign molecules into cells, but its molecular basis is poorly understood.
  The earpiece of the Symbolic Order introduces something foreign into his head - it is language.
4. 1.4 (of a law or restriction) outside the local jurisdiction.
  Example sentencesExamples
  To be sure, the analogy between foreign law as authority and the Bible as authority isn't perfect.
  Those who draw on foreign laws and precedents tend to use them selectively, when it suits their purposes.
  In my view, the reliance of foreign law and practice is a symptom of the Court's problem, not the problem itself.
  Why are we using foreign law: to enhance the legitimacy of our decisions within the U.S. or to the rest of the world?
  Now, I've read the whole text of the speech, which is mostly justifying his bill to bar courts from citing foreign law.
  It is clear that in the absence of proof of a foreign law our courts will apply the lex fori, the law of Ontario.
  It is a matter of perhaps not daily, but certainly regular occurrence that experts on foreign law are called in such situations.
  A judge's job is to interpret the law, not make it up by pouring foreign law into our constitutional jurisprudence.
  It is not unheard of to have an action tried in a jurisdiction which applies foreign law.
  In Part 4 the bill adds all the evidential rules relating to foreign judgments and foreign laws.
  Here's what Breyer said, in the course of justifying the practice of citing foreign law.
  I would say, as a general matter, that there are a couple of things that cause concern on my part about the use of foreign law as precedent.
  These would be cases in which foreign law was incorporated into American law.
  I'd be very interested to hear from proponents of citing or relying on foreign law about the answers to these questions.
  The foreign law is treated as a question of fact.
  But, as with his reference to changes in domestic law, his survey of foreign law is highly selective.
  Elsewhere in his testimony, Roberts criticized the importation of foreign law.
  He is not authorised to receive any evidence of foreign law, unless such evidence is relevant to the question whether the offence is one of a political character.
  If judges begin citing foreign law as non-mandatory, how long will it be before they begin using it to decide cases?
  The foreign laws seem a perfectly reasonable expression of sovereignty, and ones that we should respect.
2Strange and unfamiliar.
陌生的，不熟悉的
I suppose this all feels pretty foreign to you
我想这一切都让你感到相当陌生。
Example sentencesExamples
- They stand out like the Harbour Bridge in their getups and habits, which are foreign to most Aussies.
- It was so strange and foreign a concept that the very thought scared me more than anything in my entire period of life.
- The sunlight seemed strange, foreign somehow, as if filtered through a glass.
- As the metal slices through my wrist, I can only feel the strange, foreign feeling of dizziness.
- The deeply forgotten greets us as foreign but also makes strange the familiar.
- We are free and the consciousness of the material world of the senses stands before us as something strange and foreign which no longer wears us down.
- Your flashy world of moving pictures and gender equality is strange and foreign to me.
- It felt too strange, too foreign, like she'd forsaken all of her unknown past.
- It is regarded as strange and intrinsically foreign.
- I got out of this strange and foreign bed to wander into the glass tiled halls filled with black marble.
- We're so used to the idea of the media as something that we're privileged to have, that the idea of it actively coming to us is foreign and strange.
- It's perfectly natural that it would feel kinda weird and foreign the first time.
- That was the only word that could describe it, weird, or strange, or unknown, foreign.
- It was a tough country and the animals and plants in this country were totally foreign to them.
- Already, the traditional winter is something foreign to many British children.
- There is a tendency to regard extremism and reaction within a part of the Muslim community in the west as something intrinsically strange or foreign.
- It isn't an unpleasant sensation, there is no pain to it, but it is so strange and foreign it causes me brief alarm.
- Yet, aren't new influences that seem foreign and unfamiliar also agents of positive change?
- All the plants were strange and unfamiliar, the steamy smells equally foreign.
- She stared at his hand as if it were some strange foreign object and reluctantly shook it.
Synonyms
unfamiliar, unknown, unheard of, strange, alien, exotic, outlandish, odd, peculiar, curious, bizarre, weird, queer, funny
1. 2.1foreign to Not belonging to or characteristic of.
  不属于…的，与…相悖的
  crime and brutality are foreign to our nature and our country
  犯罪和暴行与我们的本性和国家相背。
  Example sentencesExamples
  For a voter to be guided only by the fundamentality of human life risks falling into a radicalism that is foreign to the Catholic moral tradition.
  They have tried to persuade society to reject practices that are foreign to Islam.
  As a matter of style, Buckland and Newton work in a tradition largely foreign to North America.
  We see wood take forms that are completely foreign to it, like a chair that's made with spindles and dowels.
  Okay, if politicking based on one's beliefs is foreign to Inuit, why is he doing it right now?
  To deprive someone of their liberty without telling them the charge or the evidence is completely foreign to our system of justice.
  Cowardice is a concept foreign to your very being, and by nature you are something of an adventurer.
  The so-called New Zealand way of life is becoming increasingly foreign to a growing number.
  The idea of willing mutual submission in love is largely foreign to our minds.
  Some commentators believe soccer is fundamentally foreign to the American psyche and will never catch on.
  If we take a look at the human rights history in Indonesia, the issue of human rights should not have been foreign to the country.
  Thereafter, when Yohanan came to her, Miriam expressed astonishment at behavior so foreign to his character.
  Any use that is not utterly foreign to its character as a motor vehicle is, I consider, covered by the words.
  They played with a clarity of intention foreign to the home side, an economical set of ideas that were always on the money.
  Synonyms
  irrelevant, not pertinent, inappropriate, inapposite, extraneous, unrelated, unconnected

Origin

Middle English foren, forein, from Old French forein, forain, based on Latin foras, foris ‘outside’, from fores ‘door’. The current spelling arose in the 16th century, by association with sovereign.

词汇	foreign
释义	Definition of foreign in English: foreign adjective ˈfɒrɪnˈfɔrən 1Of, from, in, or characteristic of a country or language other than one's own. 外国的，来自外国的；外国语的 foreign currency a man with a foreign accent Example sentencesExamples Often students are barely able to use their mother-tongue but yet they are still forced to try to use the foreign language of English. The picture of foreign languages was less clear with French and German seeing significant falls in interest but more students taking up Spanish. Even when they are obliged to live abroad for years they refuse either to accustom themselves to foreign food or to learn foreign languages. And a beautiful thing, for me, was that most spoke with foreign accents and in foreign languages. The problem arises is that you character talks gibberish and it sounds like some foreign space language. Her husband plans to continue working one week a month in Britain, while she has trained to teach English as a foreign language as well as running the guest house. Nearly all books are in Chinese, except in Shanghai and Beijing, where foreign language books are also available. He noted for some foreign languages there are too few students signed up to offer the course at an individual high school. I can even do it in foreign language script and characters such as Japanese and Arabic. But even cutting subjects like music, art and foreign languages has a direct impact on the core subjects. My father was a foreign language major at Yenching University. Some third grade children study at special hagwons in order to get into high schools specializing in foreign languages or science. They study mythology, gardening, cooking, foreign languages, history, botany and physics. My life has been spent pretty equally between the two countries, and I flatter myself I speak both languages without any foreign accent. But who on earth goes with the lead on foreign languages when the story also says that the current exams system is going to be dumped? Several years ago, I wrote to the local press concerning the need to teach Spanish as our first foreign language in all schools, but to no avail. Thousands of foreigners, with foreign currency and language, needed to have a special market set up. It was felt to be most appropriate for practical subjects, such as design and technology, and least helpful in the case of maths and foreign languages. And today he's a foreign language major at the University of Central Florida. The extra characters represent characters from foreign languages and special symbols for simple pictures. Synonyms overseas, distant, remote, far off, far flung, external, outside alien, non-native, adventitious 1.1 Dealing with or relating to other countries. 外交的，涉外的；对外的 foreign policy 外交政策。 Example sentencesExamples And I love foreign policy, because of the adventure and because of the stakes. Len Downey, will this tragedy change the way you deploy your foreign correspondents and the kind of risks that they will take? We've got a great new younger generation of foreign correspondents. Such epistemological conundrums are not limited to foreign policy. He was trying to bring the announcement, the pronunciation of honesty and truth to American and world foreign policy. No. Are they offering us a new foreign policy or another way of dealing with dictators and terrorists? But it was only recently, after the end of the Cold War, that we began letting the vice squad run foreign policy. Lawyers and those dealing with foreign affairs have a smooth week ahead. You gave the president kind of a mixed grade on foreign policy. The bad news didn't end with the foreign policy. To listen to his high-level critics, one might think that no American president had ever proposed an interventionist foreign policy before. A treaty dealt with frontier issues and declared that Tibet was to have no dealings with foreign powers without Britain's consent. Taubman recounts all of his subject's most significant dealings, both in terms of foreign and domestic policy. Well, I don't take polls in politics now, so I certainly wouldn't be taking polls in foreign policy. A lot of political operatives and pollsters will tell you this presidential election will hinge on foreign policy. I think that, ultimately though, that's there a genuine difference as to how we operate our foreign policy. Speaking about foreign policy, he is also eager to prove himself as a very open man, as a man who will be very active in his dialogue with the West. To truly understand America's foreign policy during the past 12 years, one must look at more than wars. That's something that I have felt was in order for a long time on foreign policy, and now I think he has a clear chance of doing that. If blame were to be justly apportioned, it would have to extend into the distant past of American foreign policy formation. 1.2 Of or belonging to another district or area. 外地的；不属于本地区的 a visit to a foreign clan 对外族的访问。 Example sentencesExamples The park has also meant a significant tourism boost to the West Kildare area with Irish and foreign tourists coming in increasing numbers. Resistance fighters have frequently targeted foreign planes in the area, which is an insurgent stronghold. But that has still left many gray areas, especially for foreign investors seeking joint venture partners. To foreign dominions, which belong to a prince who succeeds to the throne of England, this Court has no power to send any writ of any kind. One foreign family in the area had actively participated in the festivities since they arrived last year. Consider partnering with foreign distributors or sales reps, for example. The estate is now back to its original 80,000 acres - the largest area owned by a foreign citizen in the United Kingdom. The report also said that the lack of broadband lines outside large urban areas was hampering foreign investment in the regions. Other models may have been sold in Canada if a retailer bought them from foreign distributors. Wilson, who was 30 when he died, may have had dealings with foreign businesses and investors early in his career when he was based in Edinburgh. But the society is regaining its vigor, with relatively safe areas attracting foreign tourists. Yet these are precisely the areas where foreign students make the biggest contribution to American society. He gave only vague answers to questions on the alleged presence of foreign troops in combat areas such as Sulu Island. The central business district is a diverse area of retail, financial and foreign companies. A central pot to pay for healthcare for foreign visitors had been distributed to local health services on the basis of historic payments. Capital hedging has been identified as one of the biggest areas of concern by foreign bankers. The regency's plan to fight the move has gained support from 200 industrial firms in the area that employ foreign workers. Then I did distribution for foreign films in Japan, mainly gay films. The explosions occurred simultaneously late last night among areas popular with foreign tourists. In the first place most of the opium at Lintin did not belong to the foreign merchants in India, and they had no legal right to surrender it. 1.3 Coming or introduced from outside. 外来的，从外面引进的 the quotation is a foreign element imported into the work 这段引文是从别的资料引入书中的。 Example sentencesExamples The earpiece of the Symbolic Order introduces something foreign into his head - it is language. They mix and match a wide range of disparate foreign elements to create a melting pot of human and mechanical voices, jingles, sounds and samples. The process was helped, after the mid-sixteenth century, by the arrival of a new foreign element. At any time, simply by looking at our hand or our leg, one can experience the feeling that our body does not belongs to us, that it is a foreign object, outside ourselves. They are the unwanted foreign element, that which is abnormal in comparison to the protagonist's normal state. Some of the implant techniques introduced foreign material into the body, with occasionally horrifying results. Lawyers protested that it would expose clients to unreasonable pressure, and introduce a foreign element into the court. I don't think that it is a good idea to introduce any foreign substance that could adversely affect the development of a baby without a very compelling reason. The result is a wonderful collage of elements, both foreign and indigenous to the peninsula. And that means food without all the weird foreign genes running around in it. She struggled in vain against the darkness surrounding her, but the pain of a foreign element inside her prevented it. Electroporation is a common method to introduce foreign molecules into cells, but its molecular basis is poorly understood. The body possesses an innate tendency to reject and destroy any foreign material introduced into it. This label encompasses processes such as deleting a gene from or introducing a foreign gene into a plant's DNA. I carefully surveyed the area for footprints, foreign items and so on, then photographed the scene. Now introduce two types of foreign elements - lets say bacteria and viruses. 2Strange and unfamiliar. 陌生的，不熟悉的 I suppose this all feels pretty foreign to you 我想这一切都让你感到相当陌生。 Example sentencesExamples It was a tough country and the animals and plants in this country were totally foreign to them. There is a tendency to regard extremism and reaction within a part of the Muslim community in the west as something intrinsically strange or foreign. I got out of this strange and foreign bed to wander into the glass tiled halls filled with black marble. It felt too strange, too foreign, like she'd forsaken all of her unknown past. They stand out like the Harbour Bridge in their getups and habits, which are foreign to most Aussies. We are free and the consciousness of the material world of the senses stands before us as something strange and foreign which no longer wears us down. She stared at his hand as if it were some strange foreign object and reluctantly shook it. It was so strange and foreign a concept that the very thought scared me more than anything in my entire period of life. Yet, aren't new influences that seem foreign and unfamiliar also agents of positive change? Already, the traditional winter is something foreign to many British children. The sunlight seemed strange, foreign somehow, as if filtered through a glass. It's perfectly natural that it would feel kinda weird and foreign the first time. All the plants were strange and unfamiliar, the steamy smells equally foreign. It is regarded as strange and intrinsically foreign. As the metal slices through my wrist, I can only feel the strange, foreign feeling of dizziness. The deeply forgotten greets us as foreign but also makes strange the familiar. We're so used to the idea of the media as something that we're privileged to have, that the idea of it actively coming to us is foreign and strange. That was the only word that could describe it, weird, or strange, or unknown, foreign. Your flashy world of moving pictures and gender equality is strange and foreign to me. It isn't an unpleasant sensation, there is no pain to it, but it is so strange and foreign it causes me brief alarm. Synonyms unfamiliar, unknown, unheard of, strange, alien, exotic, outlandish, odd, peculiar, curious, bizarre, weird, queer, funny novel, new 2.1foreign to Not belonging to or characteristic of. 不属于…的，与…相悖的 crime and brutality are foreign to our nature 犯罪和暴行与我们的本性和国家相背。 Example sentencesExamples Thereafter, when Yohanan came to her, Miriam expressed astonishment at behavior so foreign to his character. They have tried to persuade society to reject practices that are foreign to Islam. For a voter to be guided only by the fundamentality of human life risks falling into a radicalism that is foreign to the Catholic moral tradition. We see wood take forms that are completely foreign to it, like a chair that's made with spindles and dowels. Any use that is not utterly foreign to its character as a motor vehicle is, I consider, covered by the words. Cowardice is a concept foreign to your very being, and by nature you are something of an adventurer. Okay, if politicking based on one's beliefs is foreign to Inuit, why is he doing it right now? To deprive someone of their liberty without telling them the charge or the evidence is completely foreign to our system of justice. If we take a look at the human rights history in Indonesia, the issue of human rights should not have been foreign to the country. The idea of willing mutual submission in love is largely foreign to our minds. The so-called New Zealand way of life is becoming increasingly foreign to a growing number. Some commentators believe soccer is fundamentally foreign to the American psyche and will never catch on. They played with a clarity of intention foreign to the home side, an economical set of ideas that were always on the money. As a matter of style, Buckland and Newton work in a tradition largely foreign to North America. Synonyms irrelevant, not pertinent, inappropriate, inapposite, extraneous, unrelated, unconnected outside, distant from, remote from, disconnected from, different from rare extrinsic Derivatives foreignness nounˈfɒrɪnnəsˈfɔrənˌnəs However, having struggled with the nuances of the American language, I have found it more beneficial to adapt to my alien environment rather than advertise my foreignness with a pint of beer and a fresh rendition of ‘Rule Britannia’. Example sentencesExamples There was this very basic familiarity - and then utter foreignness. But the fact that they were able to make their displeasure felt in a way that deterred further crackdowns is a testament not to their foreignness but to their newfound political clout. The foreignness sharpened his wonderful gift for description, the intensely alive portrayal of character, what he called ‘the experience of the encounter’. You can be born in Swindon and still have that sense of slight foreignness, alienation and critical detachment from the society in which you live; a sense that is essential to being an intellectual. Origin Middle English foren, forein, from Old French forein, forain, based on Latin foras, foris 'outside', from fores 'door'. The current spelling arose in the 16th century, by association with sovereign. forest from Middle English: You would not necessarily link forest and foreign, but they have the same Latin root. Forest came via French from the Latin phrase forestis silva, literally ‘wood outside’, from foris ‘out of doors, outside’ and silva ‘a wood’. The first word moved into English and became our ‘forest’. In early use forest had a special legal sense. It was an area, usually belonging to the king, that was intended for hunting, a mixture of woodland, heath, scrub, and farmland not as thickly wooded as forests today. It had its own forest laws, and officers appointed to enforce them. The New Forest in Hampshire was reserved as Crown property by William the Conqueror in 1079 as a royal hunting area, and still has its own rules and officers, or verderers (mid 16th century), a word that comes from Latin viridis, ‘green’—compare the expression greenwood (Middle English). Forfeit (Middle English) which originally meant ‘a crime or offence’, with the meaning of a fine or penalty developing from this, is also from foris, as are forum, literally ‘what is out of doors’ in Latin, but used to mean ‘market place’ and then ‘meeting place’. Forensic (mid 17th century) comes from Latin forensis ‘in open court, public’, from forum. Because we so often hear the expression forensic science in the context of solving a mystery, it is sometimes forgotten that the term means the application of medical knowledge to support the law. Rhymes Corin, florin Definition of foreign in US English: foreign adjectiveˈfôrənˈfɔrən 1Of, from, in, or characteristic of a country or language other than one's own. 外国的，来自外国的；外国语的 a foreign language 外语。 Example sentencesExamples Several years ago, I wrote to the local press concerning the need to teach Spanish as our first foreign language in all schools, but to no avail. Her husband plans to continue working one week a month in Britain, while she has trained to teach English as a foreign language as well as running the guest house. The extra characters represent characters from foreign languages and special symbols for simple pictures. Thousands of foreigners, with foreign currency and language, needed to have a special market set up. Even when they are obliged to live abroad for years they refuse either to accustom themselves to foreign food or to learn foreign languages. I can even do it in foreign language script and characters such as Japanese and Arabic. Some third grade children study at special hagwons in order to get into high schools specializing in foreign languages or science. He noted for some foreign languages there are too few students signed up to offer the course at an individual high school. And a beautiful thing, for me, was that most spoke with foreign accents and in foreign languages. The picture of foreign languages was less clear with French and German seeing significant falls in interest but more students taking up Spanish. My life has been spent pretty equally between the two countries, and I flatter myself I speak both languages without any foreign accent. It was felt to be most appropriate for practical subjects, such as design and technology, and least helpful in the case of maths and foreign languages. My father was a foreign language major at Yenching University. But who on earth goes with the lead on foreign languages when the story also says that the current exams system is going to be dumped? And today he's a foreign language major at the University of Central Florida. Nearly all books are in Chinese, except in Shanghai and Beijing, where foreign language books are also available. The problem arises is that you character talks gibberish and it sounds like some foreign space language. But even cutting subjects like music, art and foreign languages has a direct impact on the core subjects. They study mythology, gardening, cooking, foreign languages, history, botany and physics. Often students are barely able to use their mother-tongue but yet they are still forced to try to use the foreign language of English. Synonyms overseas, distant, remote, far off, far flung, external, outside 1.1 Dealing with or relating to other countries. 外交的，涉外的；对外的 foreign policy 外交政策。 Example sentencesExamples But it was only recently, after the end of the Cold War, that we began letting the vice squad run foreign policy. To truly understand America's foreign policy during the past 12 years, one must look at more than wars. I think that, ultimately though, that's there a genuine difference as to how we operate our foreign policy. Len Downey, will this tragedy change the way you deploy your foreign correspondents and the kind of risks that they will take? Lawyers and those dealing with foreign affairs have a smooth week ahead. Such epistemological conundrums are not limited to foreign policy. To listen to his high-level critics, one might think that no American president had ever proposed an interventionist foreign policy before. We've got a great new younger generation of foreign correspondents. No. Are they offering us a new foreign policy or another way of dealing with dictators and terrorists? He was trying to bring the announcement, the pronunciation of honesty and truth to American and world foreign policy. Taubman recounts all of his subject's most significant dealings, both in terms of foreign and domestic policy. Speaking about foreign policy, he is also eager to prove himself as a very open man, as a man who will be very active in his dialogue with the West. You gave the president kind of a mixed grade on foreign policy. That's something that I have felt was in order for a long time on foreign policy, and now I think he has a clear chance of doing that. If blame were to be justly apportioned, it would have to extend into the distant past of American foreign policy formation. And I love foreign policy, because of the adventure and because of the stakes. A treaty dealt with frontier issues and declared that Tibet was to have no dealings with foreign powers without Britain's consent. The bad news didn't end with the foreign policy. A lot of political operatives and pollsters will tell you this presidential election will hinge on foreign policy. Well, I don't take polls in politics now, so I certainly wouldn't be taking polls in foreign policy. 1.2 Of or belonging to another district or area. 外地的；不属于本地区的 Example sentencesExamples Then I did distribution for foreign films in Japan, mainly gay films. A central pot to pay for healthcare for foreign visitors had been distributed to local health services on the basis of historic payments. But that has still left many gray areas, especially for foreign investors seeking joint venture partners. He gave only vague answers to questions on the alleged presence of foreign troops in combat areas such as Sulu Island. Resistance fighters have frequently targeted foreign planes in the area, which is an insurgent stronghold. In the first place most of the opium at Lintin did not belong to the foreign merchants in India, and they had no legal right to surrender it. The estate is now back to its original 80,000 acres - the largest area owned by a foreign citizen in the United Kingdom. The park has also meant a significant tourism boost to the West Kildare area with Irish and foreign tourists coming in increasing numbers. The explosions occurred simultaneously late last night among areas popular with foreign tourists. Other models may have been sold in Canada if a retailer bought them from foreign distributors. Wilson, who was 30 when he died, may have had dealings with foreign businesses and investors early in his career when he was based in Edinburgh. Yet these are precisely the areas where foreign students make the biggest contribution to American society. The central business district is a diverse area of retail, financial and foreign companies. The report also said that the lack of broadband lines outside large urban areas was hampering foreign investment in the regions. Capital hedging has been identified as one of the biggest areas of concern by foreign bankers. One foreign family in the area had actively participated in the festivities since they arrived last year. To foreign dominions, which belong to a prince who succeeds to the throne of England, this Court has no power to send any writ of any kind. But the society is regaining its vigor, with relatively safe areas attracting foreign tourists. The regency's plan to fight the move has gained support from 200 industrial firms in the area that employ foreign workers. Consider partnering with foreign distributors or sales reps, for example. 1.3 Coming or introduced from outside. 外来的，从外面引进的 the quotation is a foreign element imported into the work 这段引文是从别的资料引入书中的。 Example sentencesExamples This label encompasses processes such as deleting a gene from or introducing a foreign gene into a plant's DNA. And that means food without all the weird foreign genes running around in it. She struggled in vain against the darkness surrounding her, but the pain of a foreign element inside her prevented it. The result is a wonderful collage of elements, both foreign and indigenous to the peninsula. I don't think that it is a good idea to introduce any foreign substance that could adversely affect the development of a baby without a very compelling reason. They are the unwanted foreign element, that which is abnormal in comparison to the protagonist's normal state. The process was helped, after the mid-sixteenth century, by the arrival of a new foreign element. At any time, simply by looking at our hand or our leg, one can experience the feeling that our body does not belongs to us, that it is a foreign object, outside ourselves. Now introduce two types of foreign elements - lets say bacteria and viruses. I carefully surveyed the area for footprints, foreign items and so on, then photographed the scene. Some of the implant techniques introduced foreign material into the body, with occasionally horrifying results. Lawyers protested that it would expose clients to unreasonable pressure, and introduce a foreign element into the court. The body possesses an innate tendency to reject and destroy any foreign material introduced into it. They mix and match a wide range of disparate foreign elements to create a melting pot of human and mechanical voices, jingles, sounds and samples. Electroporation is a common method to introduce foreign molecules into cells, but its molecular basis is poorly understood. The earpiece of the Symbolic Order introduces something foreign into his head - it is language. 1.4 (of a law or restriction) outside the local jurisdiction. Example sentencesExamples To be sure, the analogy between foreign law as authority and the Bible as authority isn't perfect. Those who draw on foreign laws and precedents tend to use them selectively, when it suits their purposes. In my view, the reliance of foreign law and practice is a symptom of the Court's problem, not the problem itself. Why are we using foreign law: to enhance the legitimacy of our decisions within the U.S. or to the rest of the world? Now, I've read the whole text of the speech, which is mostly justifying his bill to bar courts from citing foreign law. It is clear that in the absence of proof of a foreign law our courts will apply the lex fori, the law of Ontario. It is a matter of perhaps not daily, but certainly regular occurrence that experts on foreign law are called in such situations. A judge's job is to interpret the law, not make it up by pouring foreign law into our constitutional jurisprudence. It is not unheard of to have an action tried in a jurisdiction which applies foreign law. In Part 4 the bill adds all the evidential rules relating to foreign judgments and foreign laws. Here's what Breyer said, in the course of justifying the practice of citing foreign law. I would say, as a general matter, that there are a couple of things that cause concern on my part about the use of foreign law as precedent. These would be cases in which foreign law was incorporated into American law. I'd be very interested to hear from proponents of citing or relying on foreign law about the answers to these questions. The foreign law is treated as a question of fact. But, as with his reference to changes in domestic law, his survey of foreign law is highly selective. Elsewhere in his testimony, Roberts criticized the importation of foreign law. He is not authorised to receive any evidence of foreign law, unless such evidence is relevant to the question whether the offence is one of a political character. If judges begin citing foreign law as non-mandatory, how long will it be before they begin using it to decide cases? The foreign laws seem a perfectly reasonable expression of sovereignty, and ones that we should respect. 2Strange and unfamiliar. 陌生的，不熟悉的 I suppose this all feels pretty foreign to you 我想这一切都让你感到相当陌生。 Example sentencesExamples They stand out like the Harbour Bridge in their getups and habits, which are foreign to most Aussies. It was so strange and foreign a concept that the very thought scared me more than anything in my entire period of life. The sunlight seemed strange, foreign somehow, as if filtered through a glass. As the metal slices through my wrist, I can only feel the strange, foreign feeling of dizziness. The deeply forgotten greets us as foreign but also makes strange the familiar. We are free and the consciousness of the material world of the senses stands before us as something strange and foreign which no longer wears us down. Your flashy world of moving pictures and gender equality is strange and foreign to me. It felt too strange, too foreign, like she'd forsaken all of her unknown past. It is regarded as strange and intrinsically foreign. I got out of this strange and foreign bed to wander into the glass tiled halls filled with black marble. We're so used to the idea of the media as something that we're privileged to have, that the idea of it actively coming to us is foreign and strange. It's perfectly natural that it would feel kinda weird and foreign the first time. That was the only word that could describe it, weird, or strange, or unknown, foreign. It was a tough country and the animals and plants in this country were totally foreign to them. Already, the traditional winter is something foreign to many British children. There is a tendency to regard extremism and reaction within a part of the Muslim community in the west as something intrinsically strange or foreign. It isn't an unpleasant sensation, there is no pain to it, but it is so strange and foreign it causes me brief alarm. Yet, aren't new influences that seem foreign and unfamiliar also agents of positive change? All the plants were strange and unfamiliar, the steamy smells equally foreign. She stared at his hand as if it were some strange foreign object and reluctantly shook it. Synonyms unfamiliar, unknown, unheard of, strange, alien, exotic, outlandish, odd, peculiar, curious, bizarre, weird, queer, funny 2.1foreign to Not belonging to or characteristic of. 不属于…的，与…相悖的 crime and brutality are foreign to our nature and our country 犯罪和暴行与我们的本性和国家相背。 Example sentencesExamples For a voter to be guided only by the fundamentality of human life risks falling into a radicalism that is foreign to the Catholic moral tradition. They have tried to persuade society to reject practices that are foreign to Islam. As a matter of style, Buckland and Newton work in a tradition largely foreign to North America. We see wood take forms that are completely foreign to it, like a chair that's made with spindles and dowels. Okay, if politicking based on one's beliefs is foreign to Inuit, why is he doing it right now? To deprive someone of their liberty without telling them the charge or the evidence is completely foreign to our system of justice. Cowardice is a concept foreign to your very being, and by nature you are something of an adventurer. The so-called New Zealand way of life is becoming increasingly foreign to a growing number. The idea of willing mutual submission in love is largely foreign to our minds. Some commentators believe soccer is fundamentally foreign to the American psyche and will never catch on. If we take a look at the human rights history in Indonesia, the issue of human rights should not have been foreign to the country. Thereafter, when Yohanan came to her, Miriam expressed astonishment at behavior so foreign to his character. Any use that is not utterly foreign to its character as a motor vehicle is, I consider, covered by the words. They played with a clarity of intention foreign to the home side, an economical set of ideas that were always on the money. Synonyms irrelevant, not pertinent, inappropriate, inapposite, extraneous, unrelated, unconnected Origin Middle English foren, forein, from Old French forein, forain, based on Latin foras, foris ‘outside’, from fores ‘door’. The current spelling arose in the 16th century, by association with sovereign.
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