alienating

英 [ˈeɪliəneɪtɪŋ]

美 [ˈeɪliəneɪtɪŋ]

v.  使疏远; 使不友好; 离间; 使(与某群体)格格不入
alienate的现在分词

现在分词：alienating　

BNC.19638 / COCA.17665

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使疏远;使不友好
  If youalienatesomeone, you make them become unfriendly or unsympathetic towards you.
  1. 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。
• VERB （感情上、思想上）使疏远，离间
  Toalienatea personfromsomeone or something that they are normally linked with means to cause them to be emotionally or intellectually separated from them.
  1. 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。

英英释义

adj

• causing hostility or loss of friendliness
  1. her sudden alienating aloofness

双语例句

• Feeling out of step with everyone else in the organisation can be a very alienating business.
  感到与组织中的其他每个人都不协调，很容易疏远关系。
• That can be pretty alienating: he or she is unlikely to know what is going on.
  很可能会造成上下级相互疏远：他（或她）将无法知道公司的情况。
• They also require ample forethought to avoid alienating customers, violating contracts, and racking up extra costs.
  但它们还需要足够深谋远虑，以避免疏远顾客、违反合约和承担额外开销。
• The company risks alienating its faithful customers with its new modern image.
  这个公司以新的现代的形象出现，有疏离他们的忠实顾客的危险。
• What does it take to avoid alienating the very people with whom were hoping to connect?
  如何才能避免让我们希望联系的人感到疏远呢？
• A hard line with delinquent debtors risks alienating customers temporarily lacking cash.
  对拖欠债务的债务人采取强硬路线有可能疏远这些暂时缺乏现金的客户。
• Can you afford to keep alienating them?
  您能够承受的起失去他们的支持吗？
• This world must have been a cold and alienating place for a boy like that.
  这个世界对那个男孩一定既冷酷又遥远。
• This would have comported with Lincoln's personal convictions, but as president he felt compelled to balance these convictions against the danger of alienating half of the Union constituency.
  这与林肯的个人信条是一致的，但是身为总统，他发觉自己不得不在这种信念和疏远半数联邦选民的风险之间进行衡平。
• Your workaholic ways are likely alienating once-valued associates.
  你的工作狂状态可能会疏远以前重要的同事。