stranger
美音:
[´streındʒə
]英音:
[´streındʒə
]n.陌生人,门外汉
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stranger
/'streɪndʒə(r); `strendʒɚ/
n
1 person that one does not know 陌生人
*I'd met Anna before, but her friend was a complete/total stranger to me. 我见过安娜, 但从未见过她那位朋友.
* Our dog barks at strangers. 我们那只狗见了生人就汪汪叫.
2 person in a new or an unfamiliar place or with people that he does not know 外地人; 异乡人; 外人
*I'm a stranger in this town, ie I do not know my way around it. 我在这个城镇里人地生疏.
3 (idm 习语) be a/no stranger to sth (fml 文) beunaccustomed/accustomed to a certain feeling, experience,condition, job, etc 不惯于[习惯于]某种感情、经历、状况、工作等
*He's no stranger to misfortune, ie He has experienced it before. 他饱经忧患.
stranger
n[C]
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French;Origin: estrangier, from estrange; STRANGE1]
someone that you do not know
Children must not talk to strangers.
perfect/complete/total stranger
(=used to emphasize that you do not know them)
Julie finds it easy to speak to complete strangers.
be no stranger to sth
to have had a lot of a particular kind of experience
a politician who is no stranger to controversy
someone in a new and unfamiliar place
'Where's the station?' 'Sorry, I'm a stranger here myself.'
Hello, stranger!
spoken used to greet someone who you have not seen for a long time
don't be a stranger!
spoken used when someone is leaving to invite them back to see you soon
HINT sense 1
Do not use stranger to mean 'a person from another country'. Use foreigner or, more politely, 'a person from abroad/overseas '.
1. Bad luck is no stranger to this warm and thoughtful 37-year-old man. 厄运已经不是一次捉弄这位37岁、热心而又体贴的人了。
2. When they had all made themselves comfortable, a stranger appeared. He looked very angry. 当他们都已安排舒适时,一个陌生人出现了。他看上去非常气愤。
3. The dog snarled at the stranger. 狗对着陌生人嗥叫。
4. The stranger suddenly looks like a bum (无业游民). 这个陌生人突然看上去像个游手好闲的无业游民。
5. Think about some of your most unforgettable meetings: an introduction to your future spouse, a job interview, an encounter with a stranger. 想想那些让你最为难忘的会面:被介绍给你未来的妻子或丈夫,一次求职面试,与陌生人的一次邂逅。
6. There is a swell of emotion within me for this stranger who so quickly came into and went from my life. 为这位迅速走进又很快走出我生活的陌生人,我心间涌起了一股感情。
7. At one point along the journey, he might chat with a stranger. At another, someone would pat his dog, calling him by name. 在上班途中,有时他会与陌生人聊天,有时又有人会拍拍他的狗,直呼其名与他打招呼。
8. Yet as he lost himself in this land of strange colour and stranger sound, Humboldt became aware that he was being watched. 他忘记了自己的存在,完全融入到了丛林的奇妙景色和音响中。然而正当此时,洪堡开始意识到他正在被注视着。
9. You start to see a stranger in your rearview mirror. 你开始在汽车的后视镜里看到了一个陌生人。
10. She was accosted by a complete stranger. 有一个她完全不认识的人过来跟她搭讪.
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