foreigner

英 ['f?r?n?] 美['f?r?n?]

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復(fù)數(shù):?foreigners;

foreigner (n.): early 15c., foreyner; see foreign + -er (1).
In ordinary use chiefly applied to those who speak a foreign language as their native tongue; thus in England the term is not commonly understood to include Americans. [OED]
In American English from 1620s through mid-19c., however, it was used of a person from a different colony or state. Earlier as a noun in English was simple foreign (early 14c.), probably from Old French, which used the adjective as a noun meaning "foreigner;" also "outskirts; the outside world; latrine, privy." Spelling furriner, representing pronunciation, is from 1832, originally in Irish dialect pieces but by 1840s picked up by American dialect writers (Thomas Chandler Haliburton).

1. You don't sound like a foreigner talking English.: 聽你講英語(yǔ)，不像是外國(guó)人。

3. Her family disowned her for marrying a foreigner.: 她的家人因她嫁給了外國(guó)人而與她斷絕關(guān)系。

4. The fact that I was a foreigner was a big disadvantage.: 我是外國(guó)人這事實(shí)對(duì)我十分不利。

5. Being a foreigner, he did not catch on the joke.: 他是個(gè)外國(guó)人, 未能理解這個(gè)笑話的含意.

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