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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Ostracism, as an experience of being rejected, excluded, or ignored, is painful for everyone. However, Ostracism is a very common phenomenon across our social contexts.
  排斥，作为一种被拒绝、排除在外、被忽略的经历，对每个人来说，都是痛苦的，然而排斥却是我们社会环境中非常普遍的一种现象。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 lack of critic's academic stand reflected in the simple ostracism and resistance to the phenomenon of left wing literature;
  对左翼文学现象做简单化排斥、抵制所反映出的批评家学术立场的缺失；
• 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。
• 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。