And he apparently said in one of the later books that he plays up his foreignness and his dandiness to disarm suspects when he's interrogating them, to make them take him less seriously than they otherwise might.

显然，在后期的某本书中提到， 自己在审讯时会刻意强调自己的异国情调和花花公子气质， 以此来消除嫌疑人的戒心，不那么认真对待。

Parros foreignness was part of the bond Christy forged between the detective and her readers both he and they were outsiders in the cases he took on given the same information and solving the same puzzles.

帕罗斯的外国身份是克里斯蒂在侦和读者之间建立联系的一部分，和读者都是案件中的局外人，拥有的信息，解决的谜题。

Her visitors were startled and fascinated by the foreignness of this arrangement, which recalled scenes in French fiction, and architectural incentives to immorality such as the simple American had never dreamed of.

她的来访者对这种安排的异国情调感到震惊和着迷，这让人想起法国小说中的场景， 以及对不道德行为的建筑动机， 如简单的美国人做梦也想不到的那。

- The foreigner felt a sense of foreignness as he tried to navigate the unfamiliar city.

这位外国人试图穿越这座陌生城市时，感到一种异国情调。

I felt Nairobi's foreignness—or really, my own foreignness in relation to it—immediately, even in the first strains of morning.

我立刻感受到了内罗毕的陌生感——或者说，我自己与它相关的陌生感——即在清晨的第一缕阳光下也是如此。