for‧eign S3 W1 / fɒrən, fɒrɪn $ fɔ-, fɑ- / 形容词

1 from or relating to a country that is not your own :

foreign students

Can you speak any foreign languages?

the success of foreign companies in various industries

I thought she sounded foreign.

transactions in foreign currencies

2 [仅用于名词前] involving or dealing with other countries 反义词 domestic :

America’s foreign policy

foreign investment/trade etc

Foreign competition provides consumers with a greater variety of goods.

our budget for foreign aid (= financial help to countries in need )

the Chinese Foreign Minister

3 be foreign to somebody formal

a) to seem strange to someone as the result of not being known or understood 同义词 be alien to somebody :

The language of finance is quite foreign to me.

b) to be not typical of someone’s usual character :

Aggression is completely foreign to his nature .

4 foreign body/matter/object formal a piece of dirt, glass, or other material that has got inside something, especially someone’s body, and that should not be there :

cells that are designed to attack and destroy foreign bodies

— foreignness 名词 [不可数名词]