foreign是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 外国的， (to) 无关的； 外来的； 异质的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suddenly a man, in foreign garments: wonderfully real and distinct to look at: stood outside the window, with an axe stuck in his belt, and leading by the bridle an ass laden with wood.
-- Then, with a rapidity of transition very foreign to his usual character, he said, in pity for his former self, 'Poor boy.'
-- The Spirit stood be-side sick beds, and they were cheerful; on foreign lands, and they were close at home; by struggling men, and they were patient in their greater hope; by poverty, and it was rich.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rattle of the harness was the chink of money, and more drafts were honoured in five minutes than even Tellson's, with all its foreign and home connec-tion, ever paid in thrice the time.
-- In a very clear and pleasant young voice; a little foreign in its accent, but a very little indeed.
-- The few words that he caught from this man's lips, first made it known to Charles Darnay that the king was in prison, and that the foreign ambassadors had one and all left Paris.
-- After looking at her, as if the sound of even a single French word were slow to express itself to him, he answered, in his former strong foreign accent.
-- No, you wicked foreign woman; I am your match.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Flea then went into foreign service, where, it is said, he was killed.
-- And the boy grew up to be a lad, and was to go forth in the wide world-far, far away to warm lands, where the cof-fee-tree grows; but at his departure the little maiden took an Elder-blossom from her bosom, and gave it him to keep; and it was placed between the leaves of his Prayer-Book; and when in foreign lands he opened the book, it was always at the place where the keepsake-flower lay; and the more he looked at it, the fresher it became; he felt as it were, the fra-grance of the Danish groves; and from among the leaves of the flowers he could distinctly see the little maiden, peeping forth with her bright blue eyes and then she whispered, 'It is delightful here in Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Win-ter"; and a hundred visions glided before his mind.
-- They themselves knew not how old they were, but they could remember very well that there had been many more; that they were of a family from foreign lands, and that for them and theirs the whole forest was planted.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She knew, too, that he was really interested in books dealing with politics, philosophy, and theology, that art was utterly foreign to his nature; but, in spite of this, or rather, in consequence of it, Alexey Alexandrovitch never passed over anything in the world of art, but made it his duty to read everything.
-- "I've no liking for foreign tours.
-- And take note: if there is an early stage of tuberculous process, of which we cannot be certain, a foreign tour will be of no use.
-- "But in favor of foreign travel I would urge the change of habits, the removal from conditions calling up reminiscences.
-- Finally his decision was pronounced: they were to go abroad, but to put no faith in foreign quacks, and to apply to him in any need.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sat down quietly to breakfast in his cabin, never once thinking of inspecting the town, being one of those Englishmen who are wont to see foreign countries through the eyes of their domestics.
-- You see, my friend, in France they exhibit foreign clowns, and in foreign parts French clowns."
-- "So, Mr. Fogg," resumed Aouda, "not content with rescuing me from a terrible death, you thought yourself bound to secure my comfort in a foreign land?"
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the bench were coffee and sandwiches, curiously small and excellent sandwiches, foreign to Martin's lunch- room taste.
-- But there's a lot of careless, ignorant, foreign slobs that need to be jollied into using their konks about these health biznai, so's they won't go getting sick with a lot of these infectious diseases and pass 'em on to the rest of us, and believe me, old Doc Pickerbaugh is the boy that gets the idea into their noodles!
-- There was a department of publications, whence were issued the Institute reports, and the American Journal of Geographic Pathology, edited by the Director, Dr. Tubbs; there was a room for photography, a glorious library, an aquarium for the Department of Marine Biology, and (Dr. Tubbs's own idea) a row of laboratories which visiting foreign scientists were invited to use as their own.
-- Martin had never seen a foreign country--he could not think of Canada, where he had spent a vacation as hotel-waiter, as foreign to him.
-- But his pleasure in looking foreign was interrupted by the entrance of the Surgeon General, Dr. R. E. Inchcape Jones, lean but apple- cheeked, worried and hasty.
扩展阅读：