1 alien /ˈeɪlijən/ adjective Learner's definition of ALIEN
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[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.搬到這座城市後,她感覺自己迷失在一種陌生文化中。
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an alien environment陌生的環境
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Honesty seems to be an alien concept in that family. [=people in that family are not honest]在那個家庭,誠實似乎是一個陌生的概念。
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: from another country : foreign外國的;異域的 3
[more alien; most alien] : too different from something to be acceptable or suitable不相容的;格格不入的—
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: from somewhere other than the planet Earth來自外星的 2 alien /ˈeɪlijən/ noun
plural aliens
plural aliens
Learner's definition of ALIEN
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: a person who was born in a different country and is not a citizen of the country in which he or she now lives外國人;外僑 2
: a creature that comes from somewhere other than the planet Earth外星人