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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The country faces diplomatic ostracism if it refuses to join the political negotiations.
  这个国家如果拒绝参加政治磋商的话，它将在外交上面临被排斥的局面。
• Workplace is one of the social contexts where ostracism often happens.
  职场是排斥经常发生的社会环境之一。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It is that same fear, the fear of ostracism that causes people to conform and not question commonly accepted opinions or popular trends.
  正是由于这种恐惧，即害怕被排斥的心理，使人们服从而不去质疑那些被广泛接受的观点或流行的趋势。
• 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。