| 释义 |
foreignize, v.|ˈfɒrɪnaɪz|
[f. as prec. + -ize.]
1. intr. To grow or become foreign; to take after, or display a resemblance to, foreign types.
a1661Fuller Worthies, Warwick (1662) 129 marg., Our Countryman Pits did foranize with long living beyond the Seas. 1860Ecclesiologist XXI. 179 The style of course foreignizes.
2. trans. To render foreign; to refashion after foreign models; to give a foreign air to.
1832Fraser's Mag. V. 372 Instructors..have sought..to foreignise our people. 1861G. Meredith E. Harrington I. iii. 37 Her sisters said she was ‘foreignised’ over⁓much. 1894Nation (N.Y.) LVIII. 360/3 We needlessly foreignize our tongue by multiplying the single f, l, and v endings. |