喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a line drawn around your own country: everything outside that line is 'foreign' — it comes from beyond your border, belongs somewhere else. From there the word stretches: dealings with what's outside, things that feel strange because they're not yours, and even a that got into a place it doesn't belong.

可以想成在自己的國家四周畫一條線：線外的、來自邊界另一邊、屬於別處的東西，就是「foreign」。核心畫面比較像「來…更多收起可以想成在自己的國家四周畫一條線：線外的、來自邊界另一邊、屬於別處的東西，就是「foreign」。核心畫面比較像「來自我這邊以外、不屬於這裡」。從這個畫面往外延伸：跟外面打交道、因為不熟而覺得陌生、甚至跑進不該待的地方的小異物，都是同一條線「裡」與「外」的分別。

Three branches

來自國界以外

最貼近核心畫面的一支：直接講「線外那一邊」——別的國家。

from another country · adjective · A2

Coming from, belonging to, or having to do with a country other than your own.

外國的

陌生、格格不入

把「外國／不屬於我這邊」的畫面從地理搬到心理：凡是不熟、不屬於自己的，都帶著一種「外來」的陌生感。

unfamiliar, strange · adjective · A2

Strange or hard to understand because you do not know it well.

陌生的

跑進來的異物

同樣是「不屬於這裡、從外面進來」的畫面，只是縮到很小的尺度：一小片不該在裡面的東西。

a foreign object (unwanted material) · adjective · A2

Used about a small piece of dirt or material that has got inside something and should not be there.

異物的

原始詞典資料18 筆記錄

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。

foreignadj/ˈfɒɹɪn/

  • 1

    Located outside a country or place, especially one's own.

    • foreign markets; foreign soil
    • He liked visiting foreign cities.
  • 2

    Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion.

    • foreign car; foreign word; foreign citizen; foreign trade
    • There are many more foreign students in Europe since the Erasmus scheme started.
  • 3

    Relating to a different nation.

    • foreign policy; foreign navies
    • Plus, the Department of Justice has argued in the past that SGEs are subject to the emoluments clause, which means they cannot take payments from foreign governments.
  • 4

    Not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system.

    • foreign body; foreign substance; foreign gene; foreign species
  • 5

    Alien; strange; uncharacteristic.

    • It was completely foreign to their way of thinking.
    • [T]his deſign is not ſo foreign from ſome Peoples Thoughts, […]
  • 6

    obsoleteHeld at a distance; excluded; exiled.

    • Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him, / That he ran mad and died.
  • 7

    lawFrom a different legal jurisdiction (state, province), even if within the same country.

  • 8

    Belonging to a different organization, company etc.

    • My bank charges me $2.50 every time I use a foreign ATM.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    obsoleteOutside, outdoors, outdoor.

foreignnoun/ˈfɒɹɪn/

  • 1

    informalA foreign person

    • The messaging instructions come in two sets: one for domestics, another for the foreigns.
  • 2

    obsoleteA foreign person

  • 3

    obsoleteA foreign person

  • 4

    obsoleteA foreign vehicle

  • 5

    slangA foreign vehicle

    • In the foreign switching lanes and we riding […] A island I wanna live somewhere silent I'm shining I'm bout to flood my neck with diamonds Yeah I've been spitting facts these niggas lying I'm driving stolens, foreigns, yeah I'm riding
  • 6

    obsoleteAn outhouse; an outdoor toilet.

  • 7

    dialectalA foreign area

  • 8

    obsoleteA foreign area

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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。