alienate

英 [ˈeɪliəneɪt]

美 [ˈeɪliəneɪt]

v.  使疏远; 使不友好; 离间; 使(与某群体)格格不入

过去分词：alienated　过去式：alienated　现在分词：alienating　第三人称单数：alienates　

TOEFLIELTSGRETEM4TEM8法律

Collins.2 / BNC.8590 / COCA.8136

牛津词典

verb

• 使疏远；使不友好；离间
  to make sb less friendly or sympathetic towards you
  1. His comments have alienated a lot of young voters.
     他的言论使许多年轻选民离他而去。
• 使（与某群体）格格不入；使疏远
  to make sb feel that they do not belong in a particular group
  1. Very talented children may feel alienated from the others in their class.
     天才出众的孩子可能觉得与班上的同学格格不入。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使疏远;使不友好
  If youalienatesomeone, you make them become unfriendly or unsympathetic towards you.
  1. The government cannot afford to alienate either group.
     疏远两个团体中的任何一方都是政府承受不起的。
• VERB （感情上、思想上）使疏远，离间
  Toalienatea personfromsomeone or something that they are normally linked with means to cause them to be emotionally or intellectually separated from them.
  1. His second wife, Alice, was determined to alienate him from his two boys.
     他的第二任妻子艾丽斯，决意要疏远他和两个儿子的感情。

英英释义

verb

• arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
  1. She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious
  Synonym:estrangealiendisaffect
• make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated
  1. the boring work alienated his employees
• transfer property or ownership
  1. The will aliened the property to the heirs
  Synonym:alien

双语例句

• We'd better not alienate ourselves from the colleagues.
  我们最好还是不要与同事们疏远。
• To alienate your friends by your behaviour.
  通过行为使朋友们疏远你。
• His attempts to alienate the two friends failed because they had complete faith.
  他离间那两个朋友的企图失败了，因为他们彼此完全信任。
• You can alienate some people as you assert your rights, or what you believe to be your rights.
  因你坚持你的权利，或是你相信是你的权益，你可能隔离某些人。
• There are fears this could further alienate Afghans from coalition forces.
  他们担心这样会使阿富汗进一步疏远联合部队。
• Corporate executives get more risk-averse, too, not wanting to alienate their new more conservative investors.
  企业高管也会变得更厌恶风险，不希望疏远企业那些更保守的投资者。
• If the nurses go on strike they may alienate public support for their pay claim.
  如果护士继续罢工的话，她们也许会使公众不再支持她们的提薪要求。
• As I argued here, we need to do more to recognize and not alienate high-IQ kids.
  正如我在这所说，我们需要做更多的事情来认可而不是疏远高IQ儿童。
• Why must you always alienate everybody?
  你为什么总是不能对人友好点呢？
• Or you'll alienate him because of it.
  或者你会因为这个而疏远他。