| 词汇 | alienate |
| 释义 | alienate verb[ T ] uk /ˈeɪ.li.ə.neɪt/ us /ˈeɪ.li.ə.neɪt/ to cause someone or a group of people to stop supporting and agreeing with you: 离间;使背离;使不友好 All these changes to the newspaper have alienated its traditional readers.报纸改头换面疏远了老读者。 to make someone feel that they are different and not part of a group: 使格格不入；使疏远 Disagreements can alienate teenagers from their families.家庭争吵会使青少年跟家人产生感情裂痕。 Causing feelings of anger and displeasure aggravate aggrieve anger annoy annoyance bend go too faridiom goat grate hack someone off harass nark rub rub someone up the wrong wayidiom ruffle ruffle someone's feathersidiom set someone's teeth on edgeidiom tit tooth troll You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Arguing & disagreeing Opposing & against Alone alienate | American Dictionaryalienate verb[ T ] us/ˈeɪ·li·əˌneɪt, ˈeɪl·jə-/ to cause a person or people to stop supporting someone or to stop feeling welcome: All these changes to the newspaper have alienated its old readers. alienationnoun[ U ]us/ˌeɪ·li·əˈneɪ·ʃən, ˌeɪl·jə-/ The alienation of young adults has lowered the number of people who vote. Examples of alienatealienate Commonly, they felt alienated from non-combatant society, frustrated at personal failure, and resentful of inadequate government policies and pettyminded officials. The book has a major disadvantage too, because it alienates the less able students. At the same time, diplomats are odd people, plucked from their home cultures, yet representing them in alien and perhaps alienating climes. The features on the surface of the model are distorted and alienated as the material repeats itself. All this is good news to the urban historian alienated by the abstractions of architectural history. Labor could be creative or alienated; labor power could be a capacity or a commodity. The counter-insurgent responds with even greater force that does not spare the civilian population, thereby alienating it. Communication is so difficult that centre and periphery become alienated. As a consequence, local communities have to a large extent been alienated from the wildlife. Students who could not afford to pay the costly private fees felt alienated from their more well-to-do classmates. Thirdly, as in wakeful perception, images perceived in dreams are alienated from the dreamer who finds himself interacting with apparently external objects and events. Yancey's (1995) study also attempts to go beyond the confines of school to identify young people who might be alienated from that setting. If the industry fails to address their use of older negative stereotypes, they risk alienating the rapidly growing older market and dissuading younger consumers. Again, the primary means of sonically evoking this alienating experience is through synthesizers and the heavy use of electronic recording techniques. Their revelry and riotous behaviour alienated them from the city inhabitants : they were seen as a good-for-nothing bunch, best avoided. See all examples of alienate 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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