alienate
柯林斯詞典
1. V-T If you alienate someone, you make them become unfriendly or unsympathetic toward you. 冷落
The government cannot afford to alienate either group. 該政府承擔(dān)不起冷落兩個組織中的任何一個。
2. V-T To alienate a person from someone or something that they are normally linked with means to cause them to be emotionally or intellectually separated from them. 使疏遠(yuǎn)
His second wife, Alice, was determined to alienate him from his two boys. 他的第2個妻子阿麗絲決心讓他疏遠(yuǎn)他的兩個兒子。
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alienate /?e?lj??ne?t/ (alienating,alienated,alienates)
劍橋詞典
alienate verb [T] (LOSE SUPPORT)
to cause someone or a group of people to stop supporting and agreeing with you
離間;使背離;使不友好
All these changes to the newspaper have alienated its traditional readers . 報紙改頭換麪疏遠(yuǎn)了老讀者。
alienate verb [T] (MAKE UNWELCOME)
to make someone feel that they are different and not part of a group
使格格不入;使疏遠(yuǎn)
Disagreements can alienate teenagers from their families . 家庭爭吵會使青少年跟家人産生感情裂痕。 返回 alienate