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/ˈfɔːrənər/ · /ˈfɒrənə/
someone who comes from a different country from the one you are in, or from the country you are talking about.
外國人
核心畫面
You can think of a line drawn around one country: everyone inside it belongs there, and a foreigner is someone standing inside that line whose home country is a different one. The word is always measured from where you are — a person in Japan is a foreigner there, and a Japanese person in Taiwan is a foreigner here.
可以想成一條畫在國家外圍的線：線裡面的人屬於這裡，而 foreigner 就是人站在線裡面、國籍卻屬於別處的那個人。…更多收起
可以想成一條畫在國家外圍的線：線裡面的人屬於這裡，而 foreigner 就是人站在線裡面、國籍卻屬於別處的那個人。這個字永遠是從「你所在的地方」量出來的——台灣人到了日本，在那裡是 foreigner；日本人來到台灣，在這裡也是 foreigner。所以它不是某種人的標籤，而是一種相對位置。原始詞典資料2 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。
foreignernoun/ˈfɒɹ.ɪ.nə(ɹ)/
- 1
A person from a foreign country.
- By the existing law of Great Britain all foreigners have the unrestricted right of entrance and residence in this country; and while they remain in it are, equally with British subjects, under the protection of the law; nor can they be punished except for an offence against the law, and under the sentence of the ordinary tribunals of justice, after a public trial, and on a conviction founded on evidence given in open court. No foreigners, as such, can be sent out of this country by the Executive Government, except persons removed by virtue of treaties with other States; confirmed by Act of Parliament, for the mutual surrender of criminal offenders.
- For a student of American history and a foreigner like myself, it is easier to understand all these extremisms of conscience.
- 2
A private job run by an employee at a trade factory rather than going through the business.
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。