foreign

柯林斯词典

1. ADJ Something or someone that is foreign comes from or relates to a country that is not your own. 外国的
She was on her first foreign holiday without her parents. 她首次不在父母的陪同下到国外度假。
...a foreign language. …一门外语。
2. ADJ In politics and journalism, foreign is used to describe people, jobs, and activities relating to countries that are not the country of the person or government concerned. 涉外的[ADJ n]
...the German foreign minister. …德国外交部长。
I am the foreign correspondent in Washington of La Tribuna newspaper of Honduras. 我是洪都拉斯《论坛报》驻华盛顿的记者。
3. ADJ A foreign object is something that has got into something else, usually by accident, and should not be there. 异质的[正式]
The patient's immune system would reject the transplanted organ as a foreign object. 该病人的免疫系统会将移植器官作为异物加以排斥。

As a leader , he's been criticized for his inexperience in foreign affairs .
He is trying to persuade local and foreign businesses to invest in the project .
The government wanted an inflow of foreign investment .
The foreign invaders were finally defeated by allied forces .
My grandfather has a profound mistrust of anything new or foreign.