- 1nB1/ˈfɔːrənər/ · /ˈfɒrənə/外國人
someone who comes from a different country from the one you are in, or from the country you are talking about.
示範例句 · Example
Leo's new neighbour is a foreigner from Canada.
逐字里歐的新鄰居是一個來自加拿大的外國人。
「foreigner」就是 foreign（外國的）加上 -er（人），所以可以想成「來自別的國家的那個人」。它是相對的說法：同一個人在自己國家不是 foreigner，一到別的國家就是了。要注意的是，foreigner 會把人推到「不是我們這邊的」那一格，聽起來有距離；所以在日常英文裡，大家更常說 people from other countries（來自其他國家的人），意思一樣、感覺親切得多。
core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.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。