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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this, however, is foreign to the mission on which you sent me and will probably be very uninteresting to your se-verely practical mind.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remember my melancholy was intolerable; I felt inclined to cry; I sat and wondered and wondered uncomfortably; the consciousness that everything was strange weighed terribly upon me; I could understand that it was all foreign and strange.
-- He gave me two more letters written by the latter when he was still in foreign parts.
-- I wanted to run away when I was fourteen years old I was a little fool then, I know but now I have worked it all out, and I have waited for you to tell me about foreign coun-tries.
-- 'There are, in the foreign Churches, many representatives of their faith who are wor-thy of respect and esteem.'
-- Poor Lizabetha Prokofievna was most anxious to get home, and, according to Evgenie's account, she criticized everything foreign with much hostility.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then said the slayer of Argus, guide and guardian, 'Sir, all that you have said is right; but tell me and tell me true, are you taking this rich treasure to send it to a foreign peo-ple where it may be safe, or are you all leaving strong Ilius in dismay now that your son has fallen who was the bravest man among you and was never lacking in battle with the Achaeans?'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The three big fellows spoke to one another in odd guttural tones, and the man who had waited for us on the beach began chattering to them excitedly a foreign language, as I fancied as they laid hands on some bales piled near the stern.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'This beast, I rather conclude, friend, is not of home rais-ing, but is from foreign lands, or perhaps from the little island itself over the blue water?'
-- 'I call them Iroquois, because to me every native, who speaks a foreign tongue, is accounted an enemy, though he may pretend to serve the king!If Webb wants faith and honesty in an Indian, let him bring out the tribes of the Delawares, and send these greedy and lying Mohawks and Oneidas, with their six nations of varlets, where in nature they belong, among the French!'
-- No, no; to me, every Indian who speaks a foreign tongue is an Iroquois, whether the castle* of his tribe be in Canada, or be in York.'
-- Ay, sir, that is a curse, entailed on Scotland by her unnatural union with a foreign and trad- ing people.
-- 'There is a vast difference between understanding and speaking a foreign tongue; you will, therefore, please to assist me still.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is no longer an individual, but a thing, an instrument to some purpose foreign to his ego.
-- I could not believe that he would ever suffer that possession of himself which love is; he could never endure a foreign yoke.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hero's wife and one child, the hobby-horse, the doctor, the foreign gentleman who not being familiar with the language is unable in the representation to express his ideas otherwise than by the utterance of the word 'Shallabalah' three distinct times, the radical neighbour who will by no means admit that a tin bell is an organ, the executioner, and the devil, were all here.
-- 'But I can't help thinking that they have gone to some foreign country.'
-- Thus, in the case of an ancient coffin of rough stone, supposed, for many generations, to contain the bones of a certain baron, who, after ravaging, with cut, and thrust, and plunder, in foreign lands, came back with a penitent and sorrowing heart to die at home, but which had been lately shown by learned antiquaries to be no such thing, as the baron in question (so they contended) had died hard in battle, gnashing his teeth and cursing with his latest breath the bachelor stoutly maintained that the old tale was the true one; that the baron, repenting him of the evil, had done great charities and meekly given up the ghost; and that, if ever baron went to heaven, that baron was then at peace.
-- How Mr Chuckster, entranced by this monstrous fact, stood for some time rooted to the earth, protesting within himself that Kit was the Prince of felonious characters, and very Emperor or Great Mogul of Snobs, and how he clearly traced this revolting circumstance back to that old villany of the shilling, are matters foreign to our purpose; which is to track the rolling wheels, and bear the travellers company on their cold, bleak journey.
-- Finally, some of the points were given in Sampson's favour, and some against him; and the upshot was, that, instead of being desired to travel for a time in foreign parts, he was permitted to grace the mother country under certain insignificant restrictions.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her discourse was interspersed with foreign scientific terms about propaganda, disorganization, groups, sections and sub-sections, which, she was perfectly certain, everybody knew, but of which Nekhludoff had never even heard.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under that, the miscellany began a quadrant, a tin canikin, several sticks of tobacco, two brace of very handsome pistols, a piece of bar silver, an old Spanish watch and some other trinkets of little value and mostly of foreign make, a pair of compasses mounted with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He addressed some words in a foreign language to his lieutenant, then turned to me.
-- The foreign seamen in the Nautilus were contented with the air that circulated in the interior; none of them had come to drink in the open air.
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