FOREIGN

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Traducere în limba română

foreign adjectiv

1. străin, din străinătate.

2. străin, al altuia.

3. străin (faţă de problemă) lateral;

this is foreign to our business nu are nici o legătură cu chestiunea noastră;

this is foreign to my views nu intră în vederile mele.

4. impropriu, nepotrivit.

5. (med., despre corpuri, substanţe) străin.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“You are right!” she cried, in a strange foreign voice. “You are right! I am here.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is the first time Mars will light your ninth house of foreign travel in two years, so you should take full advantage.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

Mr. Morris took me to the hotel where our rooms had been ordered by telegraph, he being the one who could best be spared, since he does not speak any foreign language.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

STING is part of a pathway that recognizes foreign DNA—such as that from viruses and bacteria—and signals cells to produce interferons, which stimulate the innate immune system.

(Gene linked to rare inflammatory disease in children, NIH)

A type of protein made by B lymphocytes in response to a foreign substance (antigen).

(Antibody, NCI Thesaurus)

These tumors spread quickly and are difficult to treat because the brain protects itself from foreign substances.

(Brain tumor invasion along blood vessels may lead to new cancer treatments, NIH)

She was aware only of the strength, and not of the medium, and when she seemed most carried away by what he had written, in reality she had been carried away by something quite foreign to it—by a thought, terrible and perilous, that had formed itself unsummoned in her brain.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Whereas a traveller’s chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad, as well as good, example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

The sister, Mrs Croft, had then been out of England, accompanying her husband on a foreign station, and her own sister, Mary, had been at school while it all occurred; and never admitted by the pride of some, and the delicacy of others, to the smallest knowledge of it afterwards.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Exciting news about foreign travel could have you more excited than you’ve been in years.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

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