foreigner
英 ['fɒrɪnə]
美 ['fɔrənɚ]
英語の語源
- foreigner (n.)
- early 15c., foreyner; see foreign + -er (1).
In ordinary use chiefly applied to those who speak a foreign language as their native tongue; thus in England the term is not commonly understood to include Americans. [OED]
In American English from 1620s through mid-19c., however, it was used of a person from a different colony or state. Earlier as a noun in English was simple foreign (early 14c.), probably from Old French, which used the adjective as a noun meaning "foreigner;" also "outskirts; the outside world; latrine, privy." Spelling furriner, representing pronunciation, is from 1832, originally in Irish dialect pieces but by 1840s picked up by American dialect writers (Thomas Chandler Haliburton).
例文
- 1. You don 't sound like a foreigner talking English.
- 外国人とは思えない英語を聞いてください。
- 2.Being a foreigner was not a handicap.
- 外国人であることは障害ではありません。
- 3.Her family disowned her for marrying a foreigner .
- 彼女の家族は、彼女が外国人と結婚したことで彼女と縁を切った。
- 4.The fact that I was a foreigner was a big disadvantage.
- 私が外国人であることは私にとって非常に不利です。
- 5.Being a foreigner ，he did not catch on the joke.
- 彼は外国人で、このジョークの意味を理解できなかった。
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