來自別的星球
把「別處」拉到最遠:不只是別的國家,而是別的星球。科幻小說和電影讓這一支變成今天英文裡最有畫面的用法。
extraterrestrial creature · noun · A2
In stories and films, a creature that comes from another world or planet.
外星人
Picture a line drawn around 'us' — our country, our group, our way of doing things — and something standing on the other side of it. The word says: this belongs elsewhere. How far away that elsewhere is keeps stretching: another country, another world, or simply a way of thinking that feels nothing like yours.
From the picture
來自別的星球
把「別處」拉到最遠:不只是別的國家,而是別的星球。科幻小說和電影讓這一支變成今天英文裡最有畫面的用法。
extraterrestrial creature · noun · A2
In stories and films, a creature that comes from another world or planet.
外星人
格格不入的陌生
把那條線從地理搬到感受上:這件事離我熟悉的東西太遠,遠到我接不上、也接受不了。距離不是公里,而是理解上的距離。
strange and unfamiliar · adjective · B2
Very different from what you know, in a way that feels strange or hard to accept.
陌生的
foreign · adjective · B2
Belonging to or coming from another country or group of people.
外國的
non-citizen resident · noun · B2
A person who is living or working in a country but is not a legal citizen of it.
外僑
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
aliennoun/ˈeɪ.li.ən/
A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
A citizen or national of another sovereign state.
derogatoryA mischievous or suspicious foreigner.
Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
alienadj/ˈeɪ.li.ən/
Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.
alienverb/ˈeɪ.li.ən/
To estrange; to alienate.
lawTo transfer the ownership of something.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。