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stranger

Word family 
strang·er /ˈstreɪndʒə $ -ər/ ●●○ W2 noun [countableC]
1  NOT KNOWsomeone that you do not know 陌生人
Children must not talk to strangers.
小孩子千萬不要同陌生人說話。
perfect/complete/total stranger (=used to emphasize that you do not know them) 完全陌生的人
Julie finds it easy to speak to complete strangers.
朱莉覺得和素不相識的人講話不是難事。
Do not use stranger to mean ‘a person from another country’. Use foreigner or, more politely, say that someone is from abroad/overseas.
不要用 stranger 指外國人，而要用 foreigner，更爲禮貌的說法是 from abroad/overseas。
2  be no stranger to something EXPERIENCEDto have had a lot of a particular kind of experience 有過很多某事的經歷，對某事並不陌生
a politician who is no stranger to controversy
對爭論習以爲常的政客
Examples from the Corpus
be no stranger to something• B quartet whose self-titled debut has already sold more than a million copies, is no stranger to having hits.• Derek is no stranger to controversy.• Fien is no stranger to Tormey, who recruited him when he was defensive coordinator at Washington.• Andrew himself is no stranger to the big screen and has featured in several commercials.• Leach was no stranger to Niagara stunts.• Toughguy crime novelist Robert B.. Parker is no stranger to the buried life.• His security police are no strangers to intimidation when it comes to striking fear into Ciskei's 850,000 poverty-stricken people.• But Tabitha is no stranger to confrontation.• They are no strangers to controversy.
3  NOT KNOWsomeone in a new and unfamiliar place 異鄉人；外地人；新來者
‘Where’s the station?’ ‘Sorry, I’m a stranger here myself.’
“車站在哪裏？”“對不起，我也是外地人。”
4. hello, stranger!stranger! hello spoken used to greet someone who you have not seen for a long time 你好，陌生人！ 嗨，久違了！〔用於跟好久不見的人打招呼〕
5. don’t be a stranger! spoken used when someone is leaving to invite them back to see you soon 别一走就杳無音訊！盡快回來聚聚！
n COLLOCATIONS
adjectives
a complete/perfect/total stranger (=used to emphasize that you do not know the person)
Really, I don't know why I'm revealing all this to a complete stranger.
a virtual stranger (=someone you hardly know)
I hadn't seen him for so long that he seemed like a virtual stranger.
a passing stranger (=one you pass in the street)
Do not give your camera to a passing stranger and ask him to take a picture of you.
a mysterious stranger
She never knew who the mysterious stranger was who had helped her that night.
Examples from the Corpus
stranger• Begin by watching yourself for half an hour each day as if you are a stranger.• Violence in the home is as much a crime as violence from a stranger, so do not put up with it.• The people I stayed with were very kind, so I didn't feel like a stranger for long.• With no knowledge of the language or people, he is truly a stranger in a strange land.• Many of the farming families have lived here for hundreds of years, and tend to treat everyone else as strangers.• Instead we might have been strangers.• The boy was a complete stranger to me.• Carly, don't ever take candy from strangers.• Student volunteers are relying on home hospitality from strangers, supporters who are supplying free rooms for the summer.• The room was full of strangers.• People nudged one another and nodded at this tall stranger, conspicuous in his limp white suit and dark shirt.• The stranger began a series of intonations, breathing noisily.• After assuming office, he was reluctant to use the existing speech writers because they were strangers to him.
perfect/complete/total stranger• Have you gone mad, talking of marrying a total stranger - and a foreigner - after five minutes?• Honest, to a total stranger he said all that!• Ten days in an alien village with a total stranger and her totally strange family.• The approach was to build one committed team from a group of total strangers.• Malouf is fascinated by the sometimes violent impact that complete strangers can have upon our lives.• They put money on the table, too, perfect strangers expressing unmistakable monetary interest in the Tonelli Nation.• It was the perfect excuse for ringing up complete strangers and asking all sort of personal questions.
Origin stranger
(1300-1400) Old French estrangier, from estrange; → STRANGE1

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