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

• 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。
• 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；
• At present, the number of studies on workplace ostracism is still very small at home or abroad. Although Ferris and others have developed the workplace ostracism scale, the applicability of this scale in Chinese cultural environment still remains in doubt.
  目前，国内外关于职场排斥方面的研究均存在很大的空白，虽然Ferris等人在2008年已经开发出了成熟的职场排斥量表，但它在我国文化环境下的适用性仍有待考证。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Prior studies have shown that the consequences of disclosing HIV-positive status may include rejection, abandonment, ostracism and degradation.
  此前进行的多项研究结果显示，将HIV检测结果呈阳性的信息告知他人的举动可能会带来包括被人们拒绝、排斥、抛弃以及羞辱等在内的多种负面结果。