ostracism

英 [ˈɒstrəsɪzəm]

美 [ˈɑːstrəsɪzəm]

n.  排挤; 排斥

GRE法律

BNC.35297 / COCA.25511

牛津词典

noun

• 排挤；排斥
  the act of deliberately not including sb in a group or activity; the state of not being included

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 排斥；排挤；孤立
  Ostracismis the state of being ostracized or the act of ostracizing someone.
  1. ...those who have decided to risk social ostracism and stay on the wrong side of town.
     那些决定冒着遭受社会孤立之险、继续呆在贫民区的人
  2. ...denunciation, tougher sanctions and ostracism from the civilised world.
     来自文明世界的谴责、更加严厉的制裁和排斥

英英释义

noun

• the act of excluding someone from society by general consent
• the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)
  1. the association should get rid of its elderly members--not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry
  Synonym:banishmentCoventry

双语例句

• Until I emigrated to America, my family and I endured progressive ostracism and discrimination.
  我的家庭和我自己忍受着变本加厉的排斥和歧视直到我移居美国。
• The studies suggest that "marginalized students" are normally suffered from social ostracism. There are a series of factors that affect mental health.
  认为边缘化学生主要产生于社会排斥之中，影响大学生心理健康的因素。
• The divisiveness, caste systems and ostracism that religions have caused still exists, and so do fear of disobeying "God's laws" and guilt and remorse when one strays from strict adherence.
  由宗教引起的各种分裂以及权利堡垒至今依然存在，同样的，还有对于所谓“上帝法则”的畏惧以及当触犯了这些法则之后所产生的负罪感。
• De Jesus's childhood was marked by prejudice and ostracism for several reasons: she was black, the child of a single mother, and very outspoken, even at a young age.
  德赫苏的童年充满了偏见和排斥，有几个理由：她是黑色的，孩子的单身母亲，非常直率，甚至在年轻时。
• Across decades of widespread ostracism, followed by years of patchwork acceptance and, most recently, moments of heady triumph, gay people invoked that phrase to explain why homophobia was unwarranted and discrimination senseless.
  历经几十年的否认排斥、随后数年的零星认可，以及最近令人兴奋的胜利时刻，生来如此这一说法一直被同性恋者用来解释恐同没有任何理论依据，对同性恋的歧视也是毫无意义的。
• At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you risked ostracism or even violence by saying otherwise.
  在任何一个时代，总有一些被人们认为是荒谬的东西，他们的信仰如此强烈，以至于你说出相反的话，有可能会被流放或者遭受暴力。
• In1904, he suffered a nervous breakdown from the anxiety and ostracism caused by his failed marriage.
  1904年，他遭受了精神崩溃的焦虑和排斥所造成的失败婚姻。
• In addition, the psychological toll of isolation and ostracism can be profound, to say nothing of the physical violence to which HIV-infected people are sometimes exposed.
  此外，孤立和排斥带来的心理影响非常巨大，他们身体上遭受的痛苦就更不必说了。
• For the first time in her life the import and horror of social ostracism flashed upon her.
  她生平第一次突然想到遭受社交界排斥的意义与可怕。
• They faced hostility, contempt, ostracism.
  他们面对着敌意、轻蔑和排斥。