大学英语四六级必考词组 foreign to
释义:
foreign to 陌生的;非…所原有;与…无关的
例句:
It's foreign to people.
这对人们来说很陌生。
Dishonesty is foreign to his nature.
弄虚作假并非他的本性。
He found that nine-month-old infants could be taught through repeated show and tell to recognize the names of objects that were foreign to them.
他发现,通过重复展示和告知,九个月大的婴儿可以识别陌生物体的名字。
and the forces of nature. I dreaded that first robin so, But he is mastered now, And I'm accustomed to him grown-- He hurts a little though I dared not meet the daffodils, For fear their yellow gown Would pierce me with a fashion So foreign to my own.
Most of this may be foreign to you but this is what wealthy people do.
Out of power, Mubarak entered a world as foreign to him as another planet.
This notion is as foreign to the Gulf as a glacier to the desert.
Interestingly, we are also seeing some domestic investors selling to foreign, foreign to domestic and international to international.
But Bayless gave him only 5, all heavy on ingredients like tomatillos that are foreign to U.S. tongues.
Mechanically, this concept may be foreign to new users of the ETF wrapper.
Any other environment would have been totally foreign to her, perhaps even frightening.
My native country has become as foreign to me as America once seemed.
This whole experience won't be too foreign to long-time users, but is the next step in the right direction.
Led by Kelly, the company decided it needed a five-year plan, a time horizon that was foreign to the airline.
Would our approach to the world in 2008 be foreign to a Truman or an Eisenhower, to a Henry Jackson?
However, the world that existed on similar timelines is as foreign to us as would the world from a century ago.
Introspection and imagination might have been foreign to him, but he had his own moral code and a strong sense of purpose.
Yet even the Saudis face physical constraints foreign to any central banker.
The idea that these instruments could be used as weapons is so foreign to them that they often push back angrily, denying the obvious.
He evinced a furtive joy in the misfortune he was causing, a kind of surreptitious euphoria, and it was not entirely foreign to his host.
An unforeseeable side effect of communicating in a language foreign to both of us was that it allowed me to forget, sometimes, that she was Japanese.