1. 使疏遠(yuǎn);使不友好 If you alienate someone, you make them become unfriendly or unsympathetic towards you.
e.g. The government cannot afford to alienate either group. 疏遠(yuǎn)兩個(gè)團(tuán)體中的任何一方都是政府承受不起的。
2. (感情上、思想上)使疏遠(yuǎn),離間 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.
alienate是什么意思
e.g. His second wife, Alice, was determined to alienate him from his two boys. 他的第二任妻子艾麗斯,決意要疏遠(yuǎn)他和兩個(gè)兒子的感情。
alienated He felt alienated from his peers. 他感覺(jué)和同僚疏遠(yuǎn)了。alienation ...the alienation of many from the political process... 許多人與政治活動(dòng)脫節(jié) Her sense of alienation from the world disappeared. 她與世界脫節(jié)的感覺(jué)消失了。
alienate英英釋義
verb
1. arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
e.g. She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious
Synonym: estrangealiendisaffect
2. make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated