| 词组 | alien |
| 释义 | alien In 20th-century English, when alien is used with a preposition, the choice is most often to: • ... the contempt he felt for a quality so alien to the traditions of his calling —W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919 • Are such relationships alien to the principles of UNO? —Sir Winston Churchill, quoted in Time, 18 Mar. 1946 • ... an acrid empty home with everyone growing alien to one another —Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, 1948 At one time, alien was also commonly used with from, especially in literary contexts. While still found occasionally, alien from is much less frequent now than alien to: • ... soon discerned his looks Alien from Heaven, with passions foul obscured—John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667 • Here, oft the Curious Trav'ller finds, The Combat of opposing Winds: And seeks to learn the secret Cause, Which alien seems from Nature's Laws—Jonathan Swift, "The Gulph of all human Possessions," 1724 • ... to become a moral nihilist was to papa unthinkable, so alien was it from all his habits —Rose Macaulay, Told by an Idiot, 1923 • I felt somewhat alien from this company because of my experience with would-be Communists —Katherine Anne Porter, The Never-Ending Wrong, 1977 |
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