| 词汇 | outcast |
| 释义 | outcast noun[ C ] uk /ˈaʊt.kɑːst/ us /ˈaʊt.kæst/ a person who has no place in their society or in a particular group, because the society or group refuses to accept them: 受排斥的人;被社会（或集体）抛弃的人;流浪者 She has spent her life trying to help the homeless and other social outcasts.她毕生致力于帮助无家可归的人和其他的社会弃儿。 She was a political outcast after the Party expelled her in 1982.她在1982年被开除党籍后成了一个政治流浪者。 Synonym pariah Compare castaway Alone abandoned alienate alienated apart be cast awayidiom herself himself lonely loner lonesome minority one-man band shut someone away sole solely solitarily solitude solo stag themselves outcast | American Dictionaryoutcast noun[ C ] us/ˈɑʊtˌkæst/ a person who is not accepted or has no place in society or in a particular group: a social outcast Examples of outcastoutcast It is strange that one should be so minute in the description of an unknown, outcast sailor, whom one may never see again. Lots of people wore crosses on their clothing in the thirteenth century and while it proclaimed them penitents it did not make them outcasts. Moreover, the outcast colonial generally deserves his ill fortune because he is a reprobate. Although 25 heroes held a high status rank or occupation, 5 had a low status occupation, and 16 were social outcasts. In the 1970s, those clerics who addressed the "issue of women" were perceived as outcasts. Many societies experience problems of public violence and have an abundance of social delinquents and outcasts. Cats, for instance, when they are crowded, even show the same tendency to pick on individual outcasts for persecution. I wanted to know where citizenship ended and where being an outcast began. Actresses' identity as outcasts had been anchored to a particular form of political and social organization. But his lack of social graces and his known tyranny over his sister, combined with his family history, make him an outcast. The hospices are another matter : until the 1970s, if not beyond, they remained dumping grounds for the country's social outcasts, the uninsured, and the marginalized. She was unmarried at that time, and lived as a social outcast in great poverty with her two daughters. First, it would have served as a physical sign of the alienation of these people from society: they were outcast from sanctified places of burial. Children's defensive expectations of becoming outcasts result in a predisposition to search for (minimal, nonintentional, or ambiguous) rejection cues. It was suffered by the socially unfortunate, the outcasts, minor drunks and those who wore shabby clothing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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