alienate

英 ['eɪliəneɪt] 美 ['eɪliəneɪt]

vt.使疏远；离间；让与；麻木

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◉Etymology

"Alienate" 这个词来源于拉丁语 "alienare"，由 "alius"（其他的）和 "in"（进入）组合而成，意味着“使成为其他人的”或“转让”。随着时间的推移，这个词的含义扩展到了情感和社交关系上，表示使某人感到与他人或社会分离。

◉外刊例句

The New York Times - 2023年1月英文例句："His controversial remarks have alienated many of his long-time supporters."中文翻译：他的争议性言论使许多长期支持者与他疏远。The Economist - 2023年2月英文例句："The new policy is likely to alienate the company's core customer base."中文翻译：新政策可能会使公司的核心客户群感到疏远。

◉经典名著

《傲慢与偏见》（Pride and Prejudice）by Jane Austen例句："His pride did not admit to a meanness of spirit that would alienate his affection."翻译：他的骄傲不允许他有那种会使他的爱疏远的小气精神。

◉Usage Examples

(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.

(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

◉Usage Notes

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.

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.

◉Colins

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]

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。

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 from n]

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。

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He felt alienated from his peers.

他感觉和同僚疏远了。

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...the alienation of many from the political process...

许多人与政治活动脱节

Her sense of alienation from the world disappeared.

她与世界脱节的感觉消失了。