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单词 stranger
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There is a sense of each resident passing on the news that there are strangers in town.At least one writer has attempted to produce fiction that was stranger than fact.You value your own life more than the life of a stranger in another country.You could do this with strangers or with people you know.Ten of those victims will be random strangers.For me in this case it was two strangers.Some have ugly histories in common and one is a stranger to hygiene.There was much stranger behaviour going on in the street on a daily basis.The amount of trust placed in virtual strangers was unnerving.It got us used to strangers giving something a rating that makes us feel comfortable with trust.His first assignment was to meet a mysterious stranger off a train.What would your daughter do if a large group of undesirable strangers crashed her party?Stranger still were the new arrangements in the bass department.It makes me feel like a stranger.Police officers try to prove a stranger in their town is responsible for a bank robbery.Just look at the social networking sites where people are telling their whole life story to strangers.Sometimes they told complete strangers what had happened. People accept total strangers as pals just to increase their profile.It was with random strangers who were crazy.Beside the vault of his ancestors stood two strangers.If a stranger knows one person he soon knows hundreds.That it should be pitching for the most coveted prizes in cinema is a far stranger fiction than the story itself.

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stranger

British English: stranger /ˈstreɪndʒə/ NOUN
A stranger is someone you have not met before or do not know at all. If two people are strangers, they have never met or do not know each other at all.
Telling a complete stranger about your life is difficult.
  • American English: stranger
  • Arabic: غَرِيب
  • Brazilian Portuguese: desconhecido
  • Chinese: 陌生人
  • Croatian: stranac
  • Czech: cizí člověk
  • Danish: fremmed
  • Dutch: vreemdeling
  • European Spanish: desconocido
  • Finnish: muukalainen
  • French: inconnu
  • German: Fremder
  • Greek: ξένος άνθρωπος
  • Italian: estraneo
  • Japanese: 知らない人
  • Korean: 낯선 사람
  • Norwegian: fremmed
  • Polish: nieznajomy
  • European Portuguese: desconhecido
  • Romanian: străin
  • Russian: незнакомец
  • Latin American Spanish: desconocido
  • Swedish: främling
  • Thai: คนแปลกหน้า
  • Turkish: yabancı
  • Ukrainian: незнайомець
  • Vietnamese: người lạ

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Chinese translation of 'stranger'

stranger

(ˈstreɪndʒəʳ)

n (c)

  1. (= unknown person) 陌生人 (mòshēngrén) (个(個), )
  2. (from another area) 异(異)乡(鄉)人 (yìxiāngrén) (个(個), )
    they are strangers 他们(們)互相不认(認)识(識) (tāmen hùxiāng bù rènshi)
    to be a stranger to sth 很不习(習)惯(慣)某事 (hěn bù xíguàn mǒushì)

strange

(streɪndʒ)

adj

  1. (= odd) 奇怪的 (qíguài de)
  2. (= unfamiliar) [person, place] 陌生的 (mòshēng de)
(noun) 
Definition
any person whom one does not know
Sometimes I feel like I'm living with a stranger.
Synonyms
unknown person
(noun) 
Definition
a person who is new to a particular place
Being a stranger in town can be a painful experience.
Synonyms
newcomer
He must be a newcomer to town.
incomer
foreigner
She was a foreigner and wouldn't understand.
guest
visitor
unknown
alien
I never took citizenship so I was a resident alien.
new arrival
newbie (slang)
outlander

idiom

See a stranger to something

related words

related phobia xenophobia

Quotation

a stranger in a strange land [Bible: Exodus]

Additional synonyms

in the sense of alien
Definition
a person who is a citizen of a country other than the one in which he or she lives
I never took citizenship so I was a resident alien.
Synonyms
foreigner,
incomer,
immigrant,
stranger,
outsider,
newcomer,
asylum seeker,
outlander
in the sense of foreigner
Definition
an outsider
She was a foreigner and wouldn't understand.
Synonyms
alien,
incomer,
immigrant,
non-native,
stranger,
newcomer,
settler,
outlander

Synonyms of 'stranger'

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