| 单词 | foreign currency |
| 释义 | > as lemmasforeign currency b. Belonging to, characteristic of, or coming from another country; not from one's own country; as in foreign accent, foreign currency, foreign food, foreign government, foreign investor, foreign tourist, foreign worker, etc.See also foreign language n., Foreign Legion n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adjective] > foreign (of country or place) or situated abroad > of or relating to a foreign land un-i-cundeeOE althedisheOE althedyOE elelendisha1000 fremda1000 outlandishOE strange1297 outenc1300 unkindc1300 outlandsc1330 foreign?1435 outland1488 peregrine1532 uncouth1533 forinsecal1539 exterior1540 extern1543 unnative1568 uplandish1586 external1587 tramontane1596 exotical1601 estranged1614 undenizened1635 extra-marine1639 outlanding1643 ultramarine1656 transmontane1727 forinsec service1728 foreigneering1806 trans-oceanic1827 vilayati1843 alienized1860 oversea1881 overwater1889 overseas1892 furrin1895 non-native1932 ?1435 ( J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 633 Alle fforeyn enmyes ffrom the Kyng to enchace. 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin i. 11 To build his sewertie vppon forreine strength, seeing he had no confidence in his owne forces. 1655 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans (ed. 2) ii. Pref. sig. A4v Plentifully furnished with various Foraign vanities. 1677 T. Hobbes in tr. Homer Iliads (ed. 2) To Rdr. sig. A4 Forein words. 1713 W. Darrell Gentleman Instructed (ed. 5) iii. vi. 420 [A traveller]..learns the great Mystery of Foreign Governments. 1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. lix. 270 A foreign force..actually landed upon our coast. 1809 F. Plowden Hist. Ireland: Henry II to Union I. 120 Not a single writer..foreign or native, catholic or acatholic. 1875 H. James Roderick Hudson iv. 140 She spoke with a vague foreign accent. 1894 Social Economist Feb. 91 Foreign investors withdrew about $100,000,000 worth of capital previously invested in American securities. 1912 J. E. C. Flitch Mod. Dancing iv. 62 The dancing of the prime ballerine, almost all of whom were foreign, left little to be desired. 1977 Times 22 Aug. 13/2 Proponents of a tourist tax really mean for it to be imposed only on foreign tourists. 1995 Hispanic Mar. 55/2 Hardworking U.S. workers, some of whose livelihood is threatened if they happen to look or sound foreign. 2008 E. B. Maranan in E. B. Maranan & L. S. Maranan-Goldstein Taste of Home p. xi/1 I kept hankering for Filipino dishes—when not relishing the taste of foreign food. < as lemmas |
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