| 单词 | alien |
| 释义 | alien (eɪliən ) Word forms: aliens 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] Alien means belonging to a different country, race, or group, usually one you do not like or are frightened of. [formal, disapproval] He said they were opposed to the presence of alien forces in the region. Synonyms: foreign, outside, strange, imported 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] You use alien to describe something that seems strange and perhaps frightening, because it is not part of your normal experience. His work offers an insight into an alien culture. Synonyms: strange, new, foreign, novel 3. adjective If something is alien to you or to your normal feelings or behaviour, it is not the way you would normally feel or behave. [formal] Such an attitude is alien to many businesspeople. [+ to] 4. countable noun An alien is someone who is not a legal citizen of the country in which they live. [formal, law] Both women had hired illegal aliens for child care. When war broke out, he was interned as an enemy alien. Synonyms: foreigner, incomer, immigrant, stranger 5. countable noun In science fiction, an alien is a creature from outer space. Collocations: alien attack However, the character motivations are beyond questionable and the plot holes so big that an alien attack fleet could fly through them. Times, Sunday Times But if you step through the door it's like going into the aftermath of an alien attack. Times, Sunday Times Approaching the ride you pass upturned ambulances, crashed planes, intermittent flashes and flames, you hear sirens and a news report of an alien attack. Times, Sunday Times Police stations received calls from panicked residents, fearful that an alien attack was imminent. Times, Sunday Times When he talks to an agent, the agent insinuates that they have an alien attack on their hands. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Could this change mark a breakthrough for science fiction: the first case of an alien being taken over by a human being? Times, Sunday Times If too many gates open, a powerful alien being will enter, likely destroying the town and possibly threatening the world. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The second part of the issue features the two battling fanatical, naive worshippers of a lost alien being. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But the rampages are part of the fun, as are the galaxies that fill with alien beings, good and evil. The Times Literary Supplement When alien beings mistake them for genuine space-age heroes, they are offered a chance to go where no second-rate thespians have gone before. Times, Sunday Times While exploring, he and a friend discover artifacts of an alien civilization, including a working land vehicle that has legs, like a large metal centipede. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Their rarity and superiority has sparked suggestions that they have been made by an advanced ancient alien civilization or by coming from the beginning of the universe itself. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 More hypothetically, advanced alien civilizations evolve beyond broadcasting at all in the electromagnetic spectrum and communicate by principles of physics we don't yet understand. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 With her aid, he would acquire technology from alien civilizations, which would automatically give him advantage over the contemporary human military forces. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Wars between separate alien civilizations are featured. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 With nostrils swivelled outwards and yellow ears like antenna cones, the alien creature looks like nothing on earth. The Sun A couple who have just split up go to a storage facility to divide up their possessions - but find themselves stalked by an alien creature. The Sun They vivisect a holographic recreation of the alien creature, discovering that its neuroanatomy suggests intelligence. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 At one, a guest brings a dangerous alien creature and suggests pitting it against the sandkings. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Being in an alien culture will make it exciting but also unfamiliar. Times, Sunday Times They have imported an alien culture. The Sun We pick and choose those elements of that alien culture toward which we feel a measure of affinity. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The movement intended to combat the influx of alien culture, which was threatening local art. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Creating a cohesive alien culture can be a distinct challenge. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The fantastic alien encounter aside, the writers haven't really let their imaginations fly. The Sun He was later wounded after a burst of acid from an alien encounter began to burn through his armor. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Yet above and beyond all the singers who reference space in their songs, there are many who also claim to have had alien encounters. Times, Sunday Times The man was told that 'no evidence' of alien encounters existed. Times, Sunday Times He felt that some precision was needed when discussing the central alien form in the case. Times, Sunday Times He has extraordinary powers, including the ability to turn into his alien form, which allows him to hover. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In their alien form, they appear humanoid with bright, wispy skin, and can manipulate and control solar energy for a variety of purposes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In his alien form he possesses incredible strength; in both forms he can use telekinesis and telepathy, including the ability to take control of other mutants' powers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 At the same time small group of humans use anti-aging techniques and an alien form of interstellar teleportation to parachute in on the changing solar system over many centuries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If that weren't enough of a revelation, there's alien intelligence as well. Times, Sunday Times It would, in some ways, be disappointing if searches for alien intelligence were doomed to fail. Times, Sunday Times Rather than simply listening for signals of extraterrestrial life, some scientists are preparing to take a much more active approach to finding alien intelligence on other planets. Times, Sunday Times The alien intelligence instructs the boffin on how to build a supercomputer - which in turn builds a beautiful, flesh-and-blood robot. The Sun He was addressing one of astronomy's great mysteries: why, given the estimated 200bn-400bn stars and at least 100bn planets in our galaxy, are there no signs of alien intelligence? Times, Sunday Times They must not be driven to extinction by alien invaders. Times, Sunday Times Species that disappear will be replaced by alien invaders. Times, Sunday Times Classic sci-fi thriller about alien invaders. The Sun The first disc takes place on earth where the player must liberate the planet from the alien invaders. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The film tells the story of a robot who combats alien invaders. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But with its futuristic wide shoulders and sculptured shape, the style looked more alien invasion than cutting edge. The Sun This broadcast didn’t actually cause widespread fear of an alien invasion among listeners, as some have claimed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They look like the scars of an alien invasion. Times, Sunday Times After forming a neighbourhood watch group with outcasts from his community, a supermarket manager stumbles on an alien invasion going on right under their noses. The Sun Noctilucent, or night-shining, clouds look like some sort of alien invasion with electric blue tendrils and ripples spreading across the night sky. Times, Sunday Times As early-morning commuters started to hit the road, the reaction from motorists and pedestrians was one of shock and almost disbelief ... as if they were witnessing an alien landing. The Sun But an alien landing would plausibly still have the jump on it for frequency and subsequent news-generation. Times, Sunday Times A number of events filmed for the program made national headlines including their faked ghost sighting and alien landing. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But it didn't prepare me for the everchanging alien landscape. The Sun This was sci-fi as wish fulfilment, designed to make us feel better about ourselves even as we marvelled at its preposterous alien landscape. Times, Sunday Times The feeling of remoteness, coupled with the beautiful, alien landscape, was overwhelming for a first-timer. Times, Sunday Times But chances are, we've never had to fend for ourselves on a scorched alien landscape teeming with ravenous beasties. The Sun Then a 45-minute minibus ride through an alien landscape. Times, Sunday Times The makers came up with their own alien language. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He had written approximately thirty words for this alien language but wanted a linguist to create the language in full. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The robots can also speak their own alien language sounding like what seems to be based on different pitches and frequencies. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To find a way out, he learns the alien language and tries to get the other prisoners to trust him. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In addition to creating academic debate, the potential nature of an alien language has also been tackled by science-fiction writers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They think this meeting was preparing the way for official confirmation of an alien presence among us. The Sun It seems odd that a mere prop could have such a strong gravity, but its strange, alien presence dehumanizes the characters on the stage. The Times Literary Supplement He chooses the eggs, whose alien presence has been monitored throughout the scene. The Times Literary Supplement But, for once, hope rests not with politicians or generals but scholars - linguists who will attempt to communicate with the alien presence in the menacing ships. Times, Sunday Times He manages to make the alien presence go away for nearly seven years. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When signals from an alien race are decoded, they turn out to be designs for a spacecraft. The Sun The remaining humans band together to reclaim the planet back from the alien race. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The earlier story has a humorous tone, but takes a philosophical note as members of another alien race describe living stoically alongside the shapeshifters. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We learn that they are an alien race that sent the nanites. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He, along with every other member of the alien race called drell, has near perfect recollection of everything that has ever happened in their life. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The lift descends with the next group, looking like an alien ship entering inner space. Times, Sunday Times He can send his camera panning up a council estate at night and make it resemble some giant alien ship out of a big-budget sci-fi film. Times, Sunday Times These witnesses told a generally consistent story about a crashed alien ship. The Sun In a distant, but unspecified future, human cosmonauts discover the alien ship floating in space, a derelict. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He plans to find the other worlds where humans live, if he can repair the alien ship. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He says he has filmed numerous alien spacecraft. The Sun As 'flying saucers', the concept of visiting alien spacecraft was popularised in the late 1940s. Times, Sunday Times Some think they are alien spacecraft, others dismiss them as hoaxes, while secret military planes or drones have also been blamed. The Sun Even if we find no alien spacecraft, it will benefit science to discover previously unknown natural phenomena. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It seemed like alien spacecraft were studying the ground below, but was this the prelude to an extraterrestrial invasion? Times, Sunday Times Those expecting to find evidence of a wrecked alien spaceship being kept in an aircraft hangar were disappointed. The Sun Then he saw the fall of an alien spaceship, and met the sole alien inside it. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Kirby s plot focuses on the characters retrieving the scattered pieces of a crashed alien spaceship. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Her first mission involves exploring an alien spaceship. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The next morning they begin their plan to steal the alien spaceship. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It estimates that alien species cost the world economy 700 billion every year. Times, Sunday Times The spread of alien species has put nature at war with itself. Times, Sunday Times Pollution, overfishing and the introduction of alien species and diseases wreaked further havoc on fish populations over the past century. Times, Sunday Times The census identifies four main threats to life in the sea - overfishing, habitat loss, invasion by alien species and pollution. Times, Sunday Times The temptation seems to be to paint them as either an angry alien species or little cutouts with only a single personality trait. Times, Sunday Times Most authors tend to assume that alien technology would be a straightforward extrapolation of ours. Times, Sunday Times The idea that governments had access to alien technology was to fire generations of conspiracy theorists. Times, Sunday Times He and a team of investigators use alien technology to battle extraterrestrial and supernatural threats. The Sun He recognized that artful design would make the alien technology approachable, even lovable. The Times Literary Supplement But surely even alien technology couldn't differentiate between drivers glancing at their satnavs and their rearview mirrors. The Sun On this alien world you can at least see home. Times, Sunday Times It’s the nearest alien world to us, so close we consider it “ours”—our satellite, subject to our gravity. Smithsonian Mag Unlike some of his most famous work, it's not an adventure in some alien world. The Sun It was just a completely alien world to me. Times, Sunday Times And, who knows, it may yet lead to the creation of an alien world. The Sun But when aliens invade, it seems they are the only ones able to save the world. The Sun But there's a whole new battle for survival when aliens invade earth. The Sun Luckily, her size comes in handy when aliens invade earth. The Sun It was completely alien to my normal game. The Sun As was apparent at the trial, the concept of telling the truth, on oath, seemed to be completely alien to them. Times, Sunday Times It was just a completely alien world to me. Times, Sunday Times It's completely alien to their way of doing things. Times, Sunday Times It was a strange land that was completely alien to me. Times, Sunday Times Learning a new language of entirely alien characters, read right to left, requires dedication. Times, Sunday Times It said that as 'educated fair maidens', they would find such behaviour 'entirely alien'. The Sun When the first one opened at the leisure centre next to our school, in 1983, my class was taken on a tour of an entirely alien world. Times, Sunday Times It's a rare and laudable thing for our narrowly metropolitan, metropolitical theatre world to venture out into the deep shires, a world that it finds entirely alien. Times, Sunday Times When an evil alien shows up, things get a whole lot worse. The Sun She was portrayed as an evil alien, who could also use magic. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But you can't collect evil aliens and expect to get away with it. The Sun They rescue a gaggle of spoiled princesses, wage war on a guerrilla gorilla, and escape from a mocking maelstrom before getting on the wrong side of an evil alien band. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Then name the one that features a rock'n'roll brain-surgeon samurai fighting evil aliens. Times, Sunday Times The machine looks like a friendly alien and once a technician has got your eye lined up with the machine, you press the button which takes the image. Times, Sunday Times Do you fancy painting the moon blue this summer, or meeting some friendly aliens? Times, Sunday Times I would like to think there are some friendly aliens. Times, Sunday Times Teams of up to four members would be selected from a pool of soldiers, scientists and engineers (and later also friendly aliens). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The machine powering the damping field was also powering a prison, one holding an ancient hostile alien presence. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Through his acts and his deeds, our past and present are again inextricably linked in opposition to the pagan and hostile alien. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In your way are hostile aliens that are sensitive to heat, electricity or noise. Times, Sunday Times Science doesn't work like the movies, though, and the idea of hostile aliens, armed with metal and malice, seems laughable. Times, Sunday Times Upon boarding the ship, the soldier discovers it has been overrun by hostile aliens. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Astronomers have been discussing a plan to beam regular radio signals into space in the hope of attracting the attention of intelligent alien life. Times, Sunday Times Among their many discoveries are numerous planets and two intelligent alien races. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In order to provide subject matter to which audiences can relate, the large majority of intelligent alien races presented in films have an anthropomorphic nature, possessing human emotions and motivations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He honours the humanities as the soul of our species and the feature of our lives that would most interest intelligent aliens — they would already know the science. Times, Sunday Times Until that origin question could be answered, outside the astronomy community the signal would still be frequently referred to as the best evidence was of intelligent aliens. Times, Sunday Times But no one can help because they're all as green as space aliens as well. The Sun At last there's a science-fiction drama that addresses my childish puzzlement about the language spoken by space aliens. Times, Sunday Times The astronomer, meanwhile, tells the industrialist that he has been in contact with space aliens who want to open up their world to interstellar trade. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Batman's adventures often involved odd transformations or bizarre space aliens. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Psychophysiological responding during script-drive imagery in people reporting abduction by space aliens. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I find the concept of using the hard shoulder for general use totally alien, even with a speed limit which not everybody will keep. Times, Sunday Times But they have seen too many sprawling retail parks, identical cul-de-sacs, brash supermarkets and monumentalist estates plonked on to fields where they feel totally alien. Times, Sunday Times It meant exercising twice a week, which was totally alien to me. The Sun The cloud and moisture were totally alien to batsmen brought up on dust bowls and 90 degree heat. The Sun From one subject totally alien to me - music - to another - politics. The Sun This swaggering spectre, at once familiar and yet utterly alien, still haunts the world 120 years later. Times, Sunday Times These couples and their families all look so chavvily familiar, but their lives were so utterly alien and separate. Times, Sunday Times Our genes became primed to withstand challenges that are utterly alien to the environment of our cosy, well-fed world today. Times, Sunday Times I wondered whether we had made a huge mistake bringing her to this utterly alien world; whether we had sought to help her simply to make ourselves feel good. Times, Sunday Times Perhaps it's the impossible way that snakes move, counter-intuitive, utterly alien, that prompts the deep fears many people have for snakes. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 外侨, 外国的 Japanese: 外国人, よそ者 |
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