"Alien" meaning in English

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        "3": "阿蓮//"
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        "2": "鄉鎮市區別"
      },
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        "2": "阿蓮鄉"
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      "expansion": "阿蓮鄉",
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        "2": "阿蓮區"
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Mandarin 阿蓮 (Ālián) Wade–Giles romanization: A¹-lien².",
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  "pos": "name",
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          "word": "Alian"
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        {
          "ref": "1977, 光華畫報, volume 2, numbers 2-12, →OCLC, page 25:",
          "text": "Premier Chiang Ching-kuo traveled to Alien village in Kaohsiung county May 23 to inspect the Chung-chou No. 3 oilwell prospect of Chinese Petroleum Corporation.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 July 5, I-chia Lee, “COA fights for hens’ rights”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2012-07-06, Taiwan News, page 3:",
          "text": "A woman holds up two bowls containing eggs at a press conference in Taipei yesterday. The left contains a regular egg, while the other bowl is an SGS-certified egg from Taiwan’s first company to use humanely raised egg-laying hens from Europe, the Shih An Farm in Greater Kaohsiung’s Alien District.",
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        },
        {
          "english": "原視",
          "ref": "2019 October 22, Liang Wen-Ching, “Take Pre-wedding Photo Shoot Back Home”, in Phoebe Szu-Yu Huang [黃思瑜], transl., Indigenous Sight [原視], archived from the original on 2023-11-26:",
          "text": "Res Matilin comes from Sandi Village, a Paiwan community in Pingtung County. Jimmy comes from Alien Township, Kaohsiung City and has Minnan ethnicity. “I decided to come back because I really missed home. I had been away from home for too long.”",
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        }
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        "Alternative form of Alian"
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  "word": "Alien"
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      },
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      },
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        "2": "阿蓮區"
      },
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Mandarin 阿蓮 (Ālián) Wade–Giles romanization: A¹-lien².",
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          "ref": "1977, 光華畫報, volume 2, numbers 2-12, →OCLC, page 25:",
          "text": "Premier Chiang Ching-kuo traveled to Alien village in Kaohsiung county May 23 to inspect the Chung-chou No. 3 oilwell prospect of Chinese Petroleum Corporation.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 July 5, I-chia Lee, “COA fights for hens’ rights”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2012-07-06, Taiwan News, page 3:",
          "text": "A woman holds up two bowls containing eggs at a press conference in Taipei yesterday. The left contains a regular egg, while the other bowl is an SGS-certified egg from Taiwan’s first company to use humanely raised egg-laying hens from Europe, the Shih An Farm in Greater Kaohsiung’s Alien District.",
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        },
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          "english": "原視",
          "ref": "2019 October 22, Liang Wen-Ching, “Take Pre-wedding Photo Shoot Back Home”, in Phoebe Szu-Yu Huang [黃思瑜], transl., Indigenous Sight [原視], archived from the original on 2023-11-26:",
          "text": "Res Matilin comes from Sandi Village, a Paiwan community in Pingtung County. Jimmy comes from Alien Township, Kaohsiung City and has Minnan ethnicity. “I decided to come back because I really missed home. I had been away from home for too long.”",
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  "word": "Alien"
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