单词 | foreign |
释义 | foreign (fɒrɪn , US fɔːr- ) 1. adjective A2 Something or someone that is foreign comes from or relates to a country that is not your own. ...a huge attraction for foreign visitors. She was on her first foreign holiday without her parents. ...a foreign language. It is the largest ever private foreign investment in the Bolivian mining sector. Synonyms: alien, overseas, exotic, unknown 2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B2 In politics and journalism, foreign is used to describe people, jobs, and activities relating to countries that are not the country of the person or government concerned. ...the German foreign minister. I am the foreign correspondent in Washington of La Tribuna newspaper of Honduras. ...the effects of U.S. foreign policy in the 'free world'. 3. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] A foreign object is something that has got into something else, usually by accident, and should not be there. [formal] The patient's immune system would reject the transplanted organ as a foreign object. Synonyms: unassimilable, external, extraneous, outside 4. adjective Something that is foreign to a particular person or thing is not typical of them or is unknown to them. The very notion of price competition is foreign to many schools. [+ to] The whole thing is foreign to us. Synonyms: unfamiliar, strange, unknown, alien Collocations: foreign government The modern criminal code states that a prosecution may go ahead only if 'a request to prosecute by the foreign government exists'. Times, Sunday Times (2016) He says that he has been shown detailed intelligence assessments of the new nuclear capability by a foreign government. Times, Sunday Times (2009) No one can say I received this money from a foreign government. Times, Sunday Times (2016) A larger foreign intelligence service is necessary to deal with the glut of digital information used by MI6 to identify agents and threats. Times, Sunday Times (2016) If those who raised the alarm at home were overlooked, then foreign intelligence agencies were discounted. Times, Sunday Times (2006) American technology companies are allowed to decide for themselves whether to comply with requests from foreign intelligence agencies. Times, Sunday Times (2015) They protect countries from swings in local and foreign investor sentiment that can devastate an economy. Times, Sunday Times The seller, a foreign investor, wants a quick sale so has eschewed the usual approach of releasing the houses in phases. Times,Sunday Times But they will rent instead after a mystery foreign investor paid 16million for the nine-bed mansion, which boasts its own artificial fishing lake. The Sun So why not the foreign investor? Times, Sunday Times Foreign investor businesses have pulled out. Christianity Today They would remind him, with the implied menace of the all-seeing, to be careful around the foreign journalist just spotted walking into his compound. Times, Sunday Times A week later, he uttered the same words to a foreign journalist and it made front-page news. Times, Sunday Times Our conversation was cut short when plainclothes officers appeared, demanding to know why a foreign journalist was present. Times, Sunday Times One activist warns he could be charged with crimes against the state simply for showing a foreign journalist down the rubbish-strewn alleys of this crumbling suburb. Times, Sunday Times The sender was a foreign journalist. Times, Sunday Times Certainly the Icelandic foreign ministry seemed to be doing what it could to sugar the lives of visiting British journalists. Times, Sunday Times (2008) The German foreign ministry said it was trying to verify the reports. Times, Sunday Times (2016) The verdict was postponed indefinitely as the French foreign ministry lobbied Moscow for his release. Times, Sunday Times (2016) The diplomats at the foreign ministry do not count for much. Times, Sunday Times (2013) There are only four functioning foreign observer teams of about 150 people allowed to observe the election. The Star (South Africa) It was foreign observers who commented on the daily tableaux of pompous wealth alongside wretched poverty. The Times Literary Supplement The number of small boats, barges, lighters, tilt-boats and ferries upon the river was a source of perpetual interest to foreign observers. Times, Sunday Times The poll has been watched by 530 foreign observers, with the election commission saying turnout exceeded expectations. Times, Sunday Times They are attended by serving officers, academics, government officials, foreign observers and industrialists. Times, Sunday Times Some British shareholders have bemoaned the fact that a national asset was being sold into foreign ownership. Times, Sunday Times (2006) They are largely protected from takeover by the 70-year-old system that governs international aviation and all but forbids foreign ownership and control of national flag carriers. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Any majority foreign ownership could jeopardise those rights. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Successive governments welcomed digital rivals and foreign ownership. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Existing foreign ownership of critical infrastructure will also be subject to fresh scrutiny. Times, Sunday Times (2016) The central bank has spent huge sums of foreign reserves to maintain it. Times, Sunday Times Its central bank will argue that the sell-off was part of a strategy to diversify its foreign reserves. Times, Sunday Times It has piled up the dizzying sum of $2.65 trillion (1.69 trillion) in foreign reserves. Times, Sunday Times Foreign reserves have dropped by $36bn - or 5% - over the past two months. Times, Sunday Times It has spent almost $10 billion of its foreign reserves this month on supporting the currency, raising questions about its balance of payments. Times, Sunday Times Although, with a dozen life stories to get through in a foreign tongue, it was a very, very late dinner. Times, Sunday Times To get to a point where you can converse fluently in a foreign tongue would take years. Times, Sunday Times Learning to speak in a foreign tongue may also increase your brain power. Times, Sunday Times The categories of diagnosis are odd, while the language reads like it has been translated badly from some foreign tongue. The Sun When one of the four said something in a foreign tongue, they offered him $300 to keep quiet. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 During nearly two weeks we encountered only one foreign tourist. Times, Sunday Times They include common driving hazards such as wandering stock, gravel roads, sun glare - and a distracted foreign tourist at the wheel of a large, slow -moving camper van. Times, Sunday Times The new fixed entry fee of 250 rupees and 100 rupees means that a foreign tourist will pay the equivalent of about $6.40 (3.10) and $2.50 (1.20) respectively. Times, Sunday Times Democracy activists described that initiative as a cynical effort to support the armed forces with foreign tourist money in the form of taxes. Times, Sunday Times Essentially verbal rather than visual, it cannot be readily grasped by the casual foreign tourist. The Times Literary Supplement But those listed must now warn cops of all foreign travel plans, and give passport and bank details. The Sun Large rises were reported among people over 60 - perhaps attributable in part to the growth of foreign travel as well as to recent warm summers. Times, Sunday Times In most countries, foreign travel restrictions will be the last things to be lifted. Times,Sunday Times Now they are up for still more football - 39 league games each, rather than 38, and that extra game involving the hassle of foreign travel. Times, Sunday Times But for the coming year he may well be too busy for foreign travel. Times, Sunday Times Not many English footballers can claim to have made a name for themselves on foreign soil. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Yet this outpost of military power on foreign soil is a legacy of a now forgotten exercise in nation building. The Times Literary Supplement (2009) Our celebs are popular on foreign soil as well. The Sun (2015) Translations: Chinese: 外国的 Japanese: 外国の |
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