1. ADJ 外國的;來自國外的
Something or someone that is foreign comes from or relates to a country that is not your own.
...in Frankfurt, where a quarter of the population is foreign...
在有四分之壹的人口是外來移民的法蘭克福
She was on her first foreign holiday without her parents.
她第壹次在沒有父母陪伴的情況下自己去國外度假。
...a foreign language...
壹門外語
2. ADJ 外交的;外國的;對外的
In politics and journalism, foreign is used to describe people, jobs, and activities relating to countries that are not the country of the person or government concerned.
...the German foreign minister...
德國外交部長
I am the foreign correspondent in Washington of La Tribuna newspaper of Honduras.
我是洪都拉斯《論壇報》駐華盛頓的記者。
...the effects of US foreign policy in the 'free world'.
美國對外政策在“自由世界”的影響
3. ADJ 異質的;外來的
A foreign object is something that has got into something else, usually by accident, and should not be there.
The patient's immune system would reject the transplanted organ as a foreign object.
病人的免疫系統會對移植器官產生異質排斥反應。
4. ADJ-GRADED 陌生的;不熟悉的;非典型的
Something that is foreign to a particular person or thing is not typical of them or is unknown to them.
The very notion of price competition is foreign to many schools...
價格競爭這個概念對於許多學校都很陌生。
The whole thing is foreign to us.
我們對整件事不了解。