人地生疏[rén dì shēng shū]
词典a stranger in a strange place：人生地疏；人地生疏。
词典be a complete stranger：人地生疏。
词典be unfamiliar with the place and the people：人地生疏。
词典in an unfamiliar environment：人地生疏。
人地生疏[rén dì shēng shū]
a stranger in a strange place; be a complete stranger (somewhere); be unfamiliar with the place and the people; (be placed) in an unfamiliar environment
1. 这把五人吓坏了，跟办事员讲了许多好话，说人地生疏，铺保无从找起，可否通融一下。
This gave them a terrible fright, and they began entreating with the clerk, saying they were new to the area and had no way of finding a shop guarantor and wondering if the rules could be made more flexible
2. 我在这儿人地生疏。
I am unfamiliar with the place and the people here.
3. 人地生疏
3. 最初的日子里，难熬的莫过于寂寞和孤单了，人地生疏，语言交流也有很多障碍，于是买上个电话卡和老同事或老朋友聊上半个钟头，释放一下内心的孤寂和郁闷，因为时差的关系，时常是半夜睡不着的时候，伴着星光，或是顶着小雨去到那个电话亭打电话。
The beginning days, feeling strange and lonely, and language barrier, often bought telephone cards to talk half an hour with friends and classmates in china side, to release of the inner loneliness and depressed, because the reason of time difference, often went to that phone booth with starlight, .
4. 由于我在埃尔帕索人地生疏，我诚恳地希望学校有人到埃尔帕索机场来接我，我愿意支付交通费给来接我的人。
As I shall be a stranger in El paso, I earnestly hope to meet someone from the University at the El Paso Airport even if I have to pay travel expenses for the peron who comes to pick me up.