alien
/ˈeɪ.li.ən/ adjectif C2En français : étranger, extraterrestre
- Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign. · alien subjects, enemies, property, or shores
- Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
- Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.
Dans la bibliothèque
Therefore Marilla conceived it to be her duty to drill Anne into a tranquil uniformity of disposition as impossible and alien to her as to a dancing sunbeam in one of the brook shallows.
Here there was nothing of this; Anne knew that outside of her window was a hard street, with a network of telephone wires shutting out the sky, the tramp of alien feet, and a thousand lights gleaming on stranger faces.
The lady was very beautiful, but the fact of her foreign birth and of her alien religion always caused a separation of interests and of feelings between husband and wife, so that after a time his love may have cooled towards her and he may have come to regard their union as a mistake.
The lady began to show some curious traits quite alien to her ordinarily sweet and gentle disposition.
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