记忆方法
将“outsider”分解为“out”和“sider”。想象一个“side”在“out”的范围之外，即某人站在群体之外的一个角落，形成一个画面，这样就容易记住这个单词表示“局外人”或“外人”的意思。
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词族 · outsider
词形变化
中文词源
outsider 局外人
来自outside,外边。引申词义局外人。
英语词源
- outsider (n.)
- 1800, from outside; figurative sense of "a person isolated from conventional society" is first recorded 1907. The sense of race horses "outside" the favorites is from 1836; hence outside chance (1909).
权威例句
- 1. An outsider might misconstrue the nature of the relationship.
- 外人也许会误解这种关系的本质。
- 2. Malone, a cop, felt as much an outsider as any of them.
- 马隆是个警察，他跟他们一样都觉得自己像个外人。
- 3. Their jargon is impenetrable to an outsider.
- 他们的行话外人听不懂。
- 4. Here she felt she would always be an outsider.
- 她在这里总觉得是个外人。
- 5. She always wagered on an outsider.
- 她总是把赌注押在不大可能获胜的马上。