alien的意思|alien的解释-里氏词典

alien ['elɪən]

n. 外国人, 外侨

a. 外国的, 相异的

[法] 外国的, 异己的

Their ideas are quite alien to our ways of thinking.
他们的观点同我们看问题的方法格格不入。
Cruelty is quite alien to his nature.
残忍完全不合他的本性。
After being away for so long, he feels like an alien in his own country now.
背井离乡这么久，现在在他自己的国家，他觉得自己像个外人。

alien

[ noun ]

a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country

<noun.person>

anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found

<noun.person>

a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere

<noun.person>

[ verb ]

transfer property or ownership

<verb.possession>

alienate

The will aliened the property to the heirs

arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness

She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious

[ adj ]

not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something

<adj.all>

an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism

the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper

jealousy is foreign to her nature

being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world

<adj.all>

alien customs

exotic plants in a greenhouse

exotic cuisine

Alien \Al"ien\, n.
1. A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to
another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in
which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen.
Hence, a stranger. See {Alienage}.

2. One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or
estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.

Aliens from the common wealth of Israel. --Ephes.
ii. 12.

Alien \Al"ien\, a. [OF. alien, L. alienus, fr. alius another;
properly, therefore, belonging to another. See {Else}.]
1. Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or
to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien
subjects, enemies, property, shores.

2. Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent
(with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by
to; as, principles alien from our religion.

An alien sound of melancholy. --Wordsworth.

{Alien enemy} (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government
at war with ours. --Abbott.

Alien \Al"ien\, v. t. [F. ali['e]ner, L. alienare.]
To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or
ownership. [R.] ``It the son alien lands.'' --Sir M. Hale.

The prince was totally aliened from all thoughts of . .
. the marriage. --Clarendon.

He said six Indians arrested at Kingsville in south Texas earlier Thursday told agents that alien smugglers had made arrangements for their trip at Casa Romero and had picked them up there.
"Losing," in a democratic sense, is an alien concept in Communist social thinking.
Mexican police arrested about 150 suspected alien smugglers and drug dealers, the paper quoted Capt.
It seems, however, to do something quite alien to much of the German press: it produces well-written, concise articles which the readers find interesting.
Chesnoff said the 38-year-old Tapia Anchondo, a resident alien, lives in El Paso with his wife and 2-year-old child and makes his living on a ranch in Mexico.
In the past, politicians treated Europe as something alien which happened 'over there'.
While nearly all growers associations are participating in alien legalization programs, some individual contractors and growers are refusing to help their undocumented employees.
Many major charities have the reputation of imposing on poor communities massive 'improvement' schemes that may be alien to local culture and therefore destined for failure.
To the Sandinistas, steeped in the alien jargon of Marxist-Leninist ideology, the Miskitos and other Indians of East Nicaragua are a people without either a culture or a history.
One alien was Juan De La Cruz-Rodriguez, 34, who said he wanted to make money to send to his wife and three young sons in the Dominican Republic.
The case was widely viewed as a test of alien rights.
But by definition, franchisees sacrifice some freedom in order to live by somebody else's methods and rules; to some extent, democracy is an alien concept for any franchise chain.
As it became obvious that the Sandinistas and the Cubans were directly stage managing the Salvadoran insurgency, President Reagan started to complain, like President Monroe, about "inviting alien influences and philosophies into the hemisphere."
Four other people were taken into custody for possible alien smuggling.
Ruth May, an administrative assistant in City Hall who moved here in 1948, laughs when asked about television's interest in the alien landing.
The movie, produced by Steven Spielberg, tells the story of an endearing little alien from another world who becomes marooned on Earth.
"I think Americans think it's alien to the Japanese nature to do hostile takeovers, but they're tough businessmen and politically astute," he said.
The defendants had been indicted on alien smuggling charges but pleaded guilty to lesser offenses in a plea bargain.
The government's helplessness in the face of the alien invasion was highlighted when cable operators started offering PTV, the Pakistan television channel. Cable operators are hardly an anti-national lot.
Pineda, a Mexican citizen who is a resident alien of the United States, also was charged with assault in the non-fatal shootings of Heffley's wife, Jamie, and river guide Jim Burr.
He had answered the first of many questions about that alien body that had awed humans since their beginning.
U.S. law provides that asylum may be granted to an alien who has a "well-founded fear" of persecution if he returns to his homeland, based on race, religion, political views or other criteria.
The agreement will affect 33 applicants who qualified as "intending citizens," but whom American refused to consider for employment _ either because they could not produce an alien registration card or because their cards had expiration dates.
Such values are alien in many developing countries, but that does not imply they should be denied the means for economic development.
Their mission was no less than to topple International Business Machines from its dominance of the personal computer market, by producing a machine, no longer an alien processor of digits, but an extension of human intellect and creativity. They failed.
"My main problem with the government has always been ideological," the 73-year-old scholar and avowed anti-Marxist said. "This whole fight started with the imposition of an alien system on Afghanistan which was rejected by our people.
Condon has asked the court to declare the marriage annulled, which would return Novikov to his former status as an alien.
Repeat violators are also subject to a maximum of six months' incarceration for each alien hired.
Most exciting would be a 'we are here' message, deliberately transmitted by an alien species trying to make contact with intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy.
He noted that the Seoul agreement calls for a new registry to replace the present alien registration card for the third- and succeeding-generation Korean residents.

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