| 英语单词 | alienate |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['eɪliəneɪt] 美 ['eɪliəneɪt] |
| 中文释义 | vt.使疏远;离间;让与;麻木 |
| 英语例句 | (1) We'd better not alienate ourselves from the colleagues. (2) The Prime Minister's policy alienated many of her followers. (3) His attempts to alienate the two friends failed. (4) She tried to alienate him from his brother (5) The law required all citizens to alienate their property to the government. (6) The numbing labor tended to alienate workers. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 我们最好还是不要与同事们疏远。 (2) 首相的政策使很多拥护她的人疏远了她。 (3) 他离间那一对朋友的企图失败了。 (4) 她企图离间他和他的兄弟。 (5) 这部法律要求所有的公民都要把他们的财产转让给政府。 (6) 枯燥的工作可以使工人变得麻木 |
| vocabulary简明 | When you alienate people, you make them stop liking or caring about you. Show up at a conference of cat lovers with a sign around your neck that says, "I hate kittens," and you'll learn firsthand what that means. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Back in the days of Latin, before the word alien came to mean little green men from outer space, it described something or someone that was foreign or different or not known: an alien custom, an alien nation. When you alienate people, you make them WISH you were an alien, or at least that they could send you to the moon. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]使疏远;使不友好 If you alienate someone, you make them become unfriendly or unsympathetic towards you. [V n]
2 [VERB 动词](感情上、思想上)使疏远,离间 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. [V n
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