strangers

英 [ˈstreɪndʒəz] 美 [ˈstreɪndʒərz]

n.  陌生人; 外地人; 新来者
stranger的复数

柯林斯词典

  1. N-COUNT 陌生人
    A stranger is someone you have never met before.
    1. Telling a complete stranger about your life is difficult...
      要对一个素昧平生的人谈自己的生活经历是比较困难。
    2. Sometimes I feel like I'm living with a stranger.
      有时我觉得自己和一个陌生人生活在一起。
  2. N-PLURAL 互不相识的人
    If two people are strangers, they do not know each other.
    1. The women knew nothing of the dead girl. They were strangers.
      女人们都对死去的女孩一无所知。她们互不相识。
  3. N-COUNT 外乡人;外地人
    If you are a stranger in a place, you do not know the place well.
    1. 'You don't know much about our town, do you?'—'No, I'm a stranger here.'
      “你不太了解我们这个镇，是吗？”——“是的，我是外地人。”
  4. N-COUNT 生手;外行;(对…)一无所知的人
    If you are a stranger to something, you have had no experience of it or do not understand it.
    1. He is no stranger to controversy...
      他是个颇具争议的人物。
    2. We were both strangers to diplomatic life.
      我们俩在外交方面都是生手。
  5. See also: strange

    6. You do not use stranger to talk about someone who comes from a country which is not your own. You can refer to him or her as a foreigner, but this word can sound rather rude. It is better to talk about someone from abroad.
    指非本国人不能用 stranger，要用foreigner，但 foreigner 一词听起来很不礼貌。更恰当的说法是 someone from abroad。

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双语例句

  1. They are now realising just how much they owe to kind-hearted strangers
    他们现在开始意识到那些心地善良的陌生人帮了他们多大的忙。
  2. They were a clannish lot, not given to welcoming strangers.
    他们那帮人抱成一团，不怎么欢迎生人。
  3. Their view of country people was that they like to please strangers. I did not disabuse them of this notion.
    他们认为乡下人爱讨好陌生人，对此观点我并未予以纠正。
  4. I don't like strangers who ask impertinent questions.
    我不喜欢冒昧提问的陌生人。
  5. It is very moving to see how much strangers can care for each other
    看到陌生人之间这般彼此关照，实在令人感动。
  6. We don't like strangers who poke their noses into our affairs
    我们不喜欢陌生人干预我们的事务。
  7. There are few strangers in a town like ours
    像我们这样的镇子很少有外地人。
  8. Some people are always coming up to perfect strangers and asking them what they do
    有些人总爱和完全不认识的人搭讪，询问人家的职业。
  9. It's not polite to point or talk about strangers in public
    在公共场合对陌生人指指点点或议论纷纷都不礼貌。
  10. It provides perfect strangers with a ready-made and infinitely adaptable topic of conversation.
    它给完全陌生的人提供了一个方便灵活的聊天话题。
  11. Each neighborhood had its own organization of snoops who reported strangers to the authorities.
    每个居民区都有自己的侦探组织，他们向当局汇报陌生人的情况。
  12. The women knew nothing of the dead girl. They were strangers.
    女人们都对死去的女孩一无所知。她们互不相识。
  13. We were both strangers to diplomatic life.
    我们俩在外交方面都是生手。
  14. How many times has your mother told you never to talk to strangers?
    你母亲告诉你多少次了，绝不能和陌生人谈话？
  15. Traumatising a child with an abnormal fear of strangers probably won't do much good.
    给小孩造成心理阴影，让他对陌生人产生异常的恐惧，这可能不会有什么好处。
  16. A large group of undesirable strangers crashed her party.
    一大群不受欢迎的陌生人不请自来，搅了她的聚会。
  17. People did not teach their children to be wary of strangers
    过去人们不会教育孩子提防陌生人。
  18. The couple might as well have been strangers
    这对夫妇形同陌路。
  19. The soldiers had orders to allow no strangers through the gates.
    士兵们接到命令，不准外人进入大门。
  20. First time strangers, second time friends.
    一回生，二回熟。
  21. She is always bashful among strangers.
    她和生人在一起，总是忸忸怩怩。
  22. The little girl is as timid as a hare, shy in the presence of strangers.
    这小姑娘胆子特别小，怕人。
  23. The child shrinks from meeting strangers.
    这孩子怕生。
  24. The child is afraid of strangers.
    这孩子憷见生人。
  25. Flowers fall off [ will die], do what one may. Swallows return, no strangers they.
    无可奈何花落去，似曾相识燕归来。
  26. I do not like to make a show of myself before strangers.
    我不喜欢在陌生人面前炫耀自己。
  27. The child is shy with strangers.
    这个小孩认生。
  28. She often blushes when speaking to strangers.
    她跟生人说话爱红脸。
  29. He always feels rather ill at ease before strangers.
    他在陌生人面前总有些不自在。
  30. He shows an almost childlike timidity in talking with strangers.
    他和生人谈话简直像小孩子一样面嫩。
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