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• make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated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

• 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。
• We'd better not alienate ourselves from the colleagues.
  我们最好还是不要与同事们疏远。
• 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。
• 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。
• Be prepared to lose friends or alienate other people if you insist on being stubborn.
  如果你顽固不化，你可能会失去朋友或是疏远别人。
• I managed to alienate Dennis too.
  我竟然使丹尼斯也成了异己。
• 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。
• Arrogance and the know-all attitudes among some police offices will only further alienate public co-operation with the police.
  部分警员傲慢和自以为是的态度，只会疏远人民和警方和合作。
• 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。
• "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。