alienの意味・使い方・発音

alien

英 ['eɪlɪən] 美 [ˈeliən,ˈeljən]

外国人

ラテン語。語源はal、other、elseと同じ。

alien: alien: [14] The essential notion contained in alien is of ‘otherness’. Its ultimate source is Latin alius ‘other’ (which is related to English else). From this was formed a Latin adjective aliēnus ‘belonging to another person or place’, which passed into English via Old French alien. In Middle English an alternative version alient arose (in the same way as ancient, pageant, and tyrant came from earlier ancien, pagin, and tyran), but this died out during the 17th century.

The verb alienate ‘estrange’ or ‘transfer to another’s ownership’ entered the language in the mid 16th century, eventually replacing an earlier verb alien (source of alienable and inalienable).
=> alibi, else
alien (adj.): mid-14c., "strange, foreign," from Old French alien "alien, strange, foreign; an alien, stranger, foreigner," from Latin alienus "of or belonging to another, foreign, alien, strange," also, as a noun, "a stranger, foreigner," adjectival form of alius "(an)other" (see alias (adv.)). Meaning "not of the Earth" first recorded 1920. An alien 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.

1. Leningrad was the third alien city to offer him a surrogate home.: レニングラードは、彼が異郷に家を構えた3番目の外国都市だ。

2.When war broke out,he was interned as an enemy alien .: 戦争が勃発した際、敵国人として拘留された。

3.His work offers an insight into an alien culture.: 彼の作品は、異域文化について深く理解することができます。

4.Such an attitude is alien to most bu-sinessmen.: 多くのビジネスパーソンはこのような態度に見慣れていません。

5.In a world that had suddenly become alien and dangerous，he was her only security.: 突然見知らぬ危険な世界で、彼は彼女の唯一の守り神だ。