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

• Divorce agreement outside the legislation has proved this point in the acceptance of divorce by agreement of the countries, without exception, the provisions of the restrictive conditions, but these restrictive conditions did not affect the realization of freedom of divorce, or provoke social ostracism.
  境外有关协议离婚的立法也证明了这一点，在接受协议离婚的国家中，无一例外地规定了限制性条件，但这些限制性条件并未影响离婚自由的实现，或招来社会责难。
• 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。
• It is also a central feature of punishment, shunning, or ostracism.
  同样是惩罚、躲避或排斥的中心特点。
• 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。
• 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。
• Edward and Alice didn't find this minor ostracism odd or hurtful the way I would have.
  我常常感到这种微妙的放逐感，它令我感到很落单，也很受伤，而爱德华和爱丽丝却没有相同的体会。
• But the Real Madrid coach believes the midfielder is finally becoming his old self again having overcome the psychological blow of his international ostracism.
  但是皇马教练相信这位中场最终可以找回状态，但是他需要战胜被国家队抛弃引起的心理落差。
• 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。
• Ostracism is painful, said chief researcher Eric Wesselmann, a social psychologist at Purdue University.
  美国普渡大学社会心理学家、该研究带头人埃里克·韦塞尔曼说：被孤立是很痛苦的。
• 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。