"alien"单词详解：发音、词性、词源及用法

"alien"单词详解：发音、词性、词源及用法

"alien"是一个常用的英语单词，它有多种词性和含义，包括形容词、名词和动词。本文将详细介绍"alien"的发音、词性解释、词源分析以及实际应用中的例句，帮助读者全面掌握这个单词的用法。

发音

英 ['eɪlɪən] 美 [ˈeliən,ˈeljən]

词性解释

• adj. 外国的；相异的，性质不同的；不相容的
• n. 外国人，外侨；外星人
• vt. 让渡，转让
• n. (Alien)人名；(法)阿利安

助记提示

1. ali- + -en (形容词后缀).
2. => "of or belonging to another, foreign, alien, strange," also, as a noun, "a stranger, foreigner".
3. alien 外国的，侨民“侨民爱恋外国的一切”

中文词源

alien 外星人
拉丁词。词根al, 其它，同else.

英文词源

alien
alien:[14] The essential notion contained inalienis of ‘otherness’. Its ultimate source is Latinalius‘other’ (which is related to Englishelse). From this was formed a Latin adjectivealiēnus‘belonging to another person or place’, which passed into English via Old Frenchalien. In Middle English an alternative versionalientarose (in the same way asancient,pageant, andtyrantcame from earlierancien,pagin, andtyran), but this died out during the 17th century.
The verbalienate‘estrange’ or ‘transfer to another’s ownership’ entered the language in the mid 16th century, eventually replacing an earlier verbalien(source ofalienableandinalienable).
=> alibi, else
alien (adj.)
mid-14c., "strange, foreign," from Old Frenchalien"alien, strange, foreign; an alien, stranger, foreigner," from Latinalienus"of or belonging to another, foreign, alien, strange," also, as a noun, "a stranger, foreigner," adjectival form ofalius"(an)other" (see alias (adv.)). Meaning "not of the Earth" first recorded 1920. Analien 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.

双语例句

1. Leningrad was the thirdaliencity to offer him a surrogate home.
   列宁格勒是他在异地安家的第三个外国城市。
   来自柯林斯例句

2. When war broke out, he was interned as an enemyalien.
   战争爆发时，他作为敌国人士遭到关押。
   来自柯林斯例句

3. His work offers an insight into analienculture.
   他的作品能让人们对一种异域文化产生较深入的了解。
   来自柯林斯例句

4. Such an attitude isaliento most bu-sinessmen.
   大多数商界人士都会对这样的态度感到陌生。
   来自柯林斯例句

5. In a world that had suddenly becomealienand dangerous, he was her only security.
   在一个突然变得陌生而危险的世界里，他是她唯一的守护神。
   来自《权威词典》