• adj. 外國(guó)的；相異的，性質(zhì)不同的；不相容的
• n. 外國(guó)人，外僑；外星人
• vt. 讓渡，轉(zhuǎn)讓
• n. (Alien)人名；(法)阿利安

拉丁詞。詞根al, 其它，同else.

alien

alien: [14] The essential notion contained in alien is of ‘otherness’. Its ultimate source is Latin alius ‘other’ (which is related to English else). From this was formed a Latin adjective aliēnus ‘belonging to another person or place’, which passed into English via Old French alien. In Middle English an alternative version alient arose (in the same way as ancient, pageant, and tyrant came from earlier ancien, pagin, and tyran), but this died out during the 17th century.

The verb alienate ‘estrange’ or ‘transfer to another’s ownership’ entered the language in the mid 16th century, eventually replacing an earlier verb alien (source of alienable and inalienable).
=> alibi, else

alien (adj.)

mid-14c., "strange, foreign," from Old French alien "alien, strange, foreign; an alien, stranger, foreigner," from Latin alienus "of or belonging to another, foreign, alien, strange," also, as a noun, "a stranger, foreigner," adjectival form of alius "(an)other" (see alias (adv.)). Meaning "not of the Earth" first recorded 1920. An alien priory (c. 1500) is one owing obedience to a mother abbey in a foreign country.

alien (n.)

"foreigner, citizen of a foreign land," from alien (adj.). In the science fiction sense, from 1953.

1. Leningrad was the third alien city to offer him a surrogate home.

列寧格勒是他在異地安家的第三個(gè)外國(guó)城市。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

2. When war broke out, he was interned as an enemy alien.

戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)爆發(fā)時(shí)，他作為敵國(guó)人士遭到關(guān)押。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

3. His work offers an insight into an alien culture.

他的作品能讓人們對(duì)一種異域文化產(chǎn)生較深入的了解。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

4. Such an attitude is alien to most bu-sinessmen.

大多數(shù)商界人士都會(huì)對(duì)這樣的態(tài)度感到陌生。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

5. In a world that had suddenly become alien and dangerous, he was her only security.

在一個(gè)突然變得陌生而危險(xiǎn)的世界里，他是她唯一的守護(hù)神。

來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》