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• make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated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

• 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。
• To alienate your friends by your behaviour.
  通过行为使朋友们疏远你。
• "I think you probably alienate a lot of our audience," he continued.
  “我认为你可能疏远了很多我们的观众，”他继续说。
• It is my sincere hope that my teachings never alienate anyone.
  我只是衷心希望我的课程没有疏远任何一个人。
• The executive could not alienate any part of our territory.
  行政官员不能将我们领土的任何部分让给他人。
• A new format would alienate its ageing readership without attracting young readers.
  新的版式会疏远上了年纪的读者群，并且也不会吸引年轻读者。
• They would forfeit good opportunities for self-improvement and alienate their audiences.
  他们会失去改进自己的机会，也会使他们和观众越来越疏远。
• TV and the Internet alienate people from their friends, since modern people lack the face-to-face communication with friends.
  电视和互联网使人们与朋友疏远了，因为现在人们缺乏与朋友的面对面的交流。
• There is a tendency to alienate friends and unite with enemies as a result of these energetic alignments.
  此时有可能疏远朋友、和敌人团结，由于这些能量的排列。
• We'd better not alienate ourselves from the colleagues.
  我们最好还是不要与同事们疏远。