for·eign /ˈfɔrən, ˈfɑr-/
 外國的;無關的,不相干的;外來的,異質的


 for·eign /ˈfɔrən, ˈfɑr-/ 形容詞
 外國的,外地的,異質的,外來的


 foreign
 外來 外部


 For·eign a.
 1. Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government. “Foreign worlds.”
 2. Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits. “Domestic and foreign writers.”
 Hail, foreign wonder!
 Whom certain these rough shades did never breed.   --Milton.
 3. Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature.
    This design is not foreign from some people's thoughts.   --Swift.
 4. Held at a distance; excluded; exiled. [Obs.]
 Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him,
 That he ran mad and died.   --Shak.
 Foreign attachment Law, a process by which the property of a foreign or absent debtor is attached for the satisfaction of a debt due from him to the plaintiff; an attachment of the goods, effects, or credits of a debtor in the hands of a third person; -- called in some States trustee, in others factorizing, and in others garnishee process. --Kent. --Tomlins. --Cowell.
 Foreign bill, a bill drawn in one country, and payable in another, as distinguished from an inland bill, which is one drawn and payable in the same country. In this latter, as well as in several other points of view, the different States of the United States are foreign to each other. See Exchange, n., 4. --Kent. --Story.
 Foreign body Med., a substance occurring in any part of the body where it does not belong, and usually introduced from without.
 Foreign office, that department of the government of Great Britain which has charge British interests in foreign countries.
 Syn: -- Outlandish; alien; exotic; remote; distant; extraneous; extrinsic.

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 foreign
      adj 1: of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations
             (other than your own); "foreign trade"; "a foreign
             office" [ant: domestic]
      2: relating to or originating in or characteristic of another
         place or part of the world; "foreign nations"; "a foreign
         accent"; "on business in a foreign city" [ant: native]
      3: not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of
         something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of
         capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind
         and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature" [syn: alien]
      4: not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced
         from an outside source; "water free of extraneous matter";
         "foreign particles in milk" [syn: extraneous]