单词 | alien |
释义 | alien (noun) alien 2 ENTRIES FOUND: alien (adjective) alien (noun) 1 alien /ˈeɪlijən/ adjective 1 alien /ˈeɪlijən/ adjective Learner's definition of ALIEN 1 [more alien; most alien] : not familiar or like other things you have known : different from what you are used to陌生的;不熟悉的 She felt lost in an alien [=strange] culture when she moved to the city.搬到这座城市后,她感觉自己迷失在一种陌生文化中。 an alien environment陌生的环境 Honesty seems to be an alien concept in that family. [=people in that family are not honest]在那个家庭,诚实似乎是一个陌生的概念。 — often + to The whole idea of having a job was alien [=unfamiliar, foreign] to him.他对找工作的事情一无所知。 2 : from another country : foreign外国的;异域的 alien residents外侨 3 [more alien; most alien] : too different from something to be acceptable or suitable不相容的;格格不入的— + to Such behavior is totally alien to the spirit of the religion.这种行为完全违背了宗教精神。 ideas alien to [=incompatible with] democracy与民主相悖的理念 4 : from somewhere other than the planet Earth来自外星的 an alien spaceship外星太空船 The movie is a story about an attack on Earth by an army of alien [=extraterrestrial] monsters.这部电影讲述了一大群外星怪兽攻打地球的故事。 2 alien /ˈeɪlijən/ noun plural aliens 2 alien /ˈeɪlijən/ noun plural aliens Learner's definition of ALIEN [count] 1 : a person who was born in a different country and is not a citizen of the country in which he or she now lives外国人;外侨 aliens seeking asylum in the U.S.在美国寻求庇护的外国人 illegal aliens [=foreign people who live in a country without having official permission to live there]非法外侨 2 : a creature that comes from somewhere other than the planet Earth外星人 The movie is about an invasion by aliens. [=extraterrestrials]这部电影讲述的是外星人入侵的故事。 He claims that he was captured by space aliens.他声称曾被太空外星人掳走。 |
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