strangers

英 [ˈstreɪndʒəz]

美 [ˈstreɪndʒərz]

n.  陌生人; 外地人; 新来者
stranger的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 陌生人
  Astrangeris someone you have never met before.
  1. Telling a complete stranger about your life is difficult...
     要对一个素昧平生的人谈自己的生活经历是比较困难。
  2. Sometimes I feel like I'm living with a stranger.
     有时我觉得自己和一个陌生人生活在一起。
• N-PLURAL 互不相识的人
  If two people arestrangers, they do not know each other.
  1. The women knew nothing of the dead girl. They were strangers.
     女人们都对死去的女孩一无所知。她们互不相识。
• N-COUNT 外乡人;外地人
  If you are astrangerin a place, you do not know the place well.
  1. 'You don't know much about our town, do you?'—'No, I'm a stranger here.'
     “你不太了解我们这个镇，是吗？”——“是的，我是外地人。”
• N-COUNT 生手;外行;(对…)一无所知的人
  If you are astranger tosomething, you have had no experience of it or do not understand it.
  1. He is no stranger to controversy...
     他是个颇具争议的人物。
  2. We were both strangers to diplomatic life.
     我们俩在外交方面都是生手。
• See also:strange

You do not usestrangerto talk about someone who comes from a country which is not your own. You can refer to him or her as aforeigner, but this word can sound rather rude. It is better to talk aboutsomeone from abroad.
指非本国人不能用 stranger，要用foreigner，但 foreigner 一词听起来很不礼貌。更恰当的说法是 someone from abroad。

双语例句

• Each neighborhood had its own organization of snoops who reported strangers to the authorities.
  每个居民区都有自己的侦探组织，他们向当局汇报陌生人的情况。
• First time strangers, second time friends.
  一回生，二回熟。
• Flowers fall off [ will die], do what one may. Swallows return, no strangers they.
  无可奈何花落去，似曾相识燕归来。
• It's not polite to point or talk about strangers in public
  在公共场合对陌生人指指点点或议论纷纷都不礼貌。
• The couple might as well have been strangers
  这对夫妇形同陌路。
• They were a clannish lot, not given to welcoming strangers.
  他们那帮人抱成一团，不怎么欢迎生人。
• He shows an almost childlike timidity in talking with strangers.
  他和生人谈话简直像小孩子一样面嫩。
• The child shrinks from meeting strangers.
  这孩子怕生。
• It provides perfect strangers with a ready-made and infinitely adaptable topic of conversation.
  它给完全陌生的人提供了一个方便灵活的聊天话题。
• Traumatising a child with an abnormal fear of strangers probably won't do much good.
  给小孩造成心理阴影，让他对陌生人产生异常的恐惧，这可能不会有什么好处。