Alien

(verb.) transfer property or ownership; 'The will aliened the property to the heirs'.

(adj.) being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; 'alien customs'; 'exotic plants in a greenhouse'; 'exotic cuisine' .

(adj.) 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' .

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• You are no child that one should not speak of what exists; but I only uttered the word--the thing, I assure you, is alien to my whole life and views. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• In Britain, England carried on her back the Hanoverian dominions in Germany, Scotland, the profoundly alien Welsh and the hostile and Catholic Irish. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• To those of my own house I am no alien, which I am to these English clowns. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Not merely for its general ideas and their artistic presentation but for its models of law it went to the records of alien peoples. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• A small band of alien herdsmen, says Sir Mark Sykes, wandering unchecked through crusades and counter-crusades, principalities, empires, and states. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• She opened her eyes and saw the streets passing--the familiar alien streets. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Let me hear you say, in the voice natural to you, and not in that alien tone, 'Mon ami, je vous pardonne. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Under such conditions, men take revenge, as it were, upon the alien and hostile environment by cultivating contempt for it, by giving it a bad name. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The Greeks never loved Nature in her grandest moods, and—saving ?schylus—both shaggy mountain and roaring waters were alien to their genius. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The lad is a mak' of an alien amang us. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Any cursed alien blood, Jew, Corsican, or Gypsy. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Thus will Dejah Thoris die, and her fate will be sealed by the first alien foot that crosses the threshold of Issus. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Such men regarded alien populations abroad merely as unimported slaves. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And I do not want a stranger--unsympathising, alien, different from me; I want my kindred: those with whom I have full fellow- feeling. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Greek achievement in civilization was native; the civilization of the Alexandrians and Romans was inherited from alien sources. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• In their own estimation they were aliens in the country which had given them birth. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• That savage tribes regard aliens and enemies as synonymous is not accidental. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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