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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Described as one of the "cold violence" in the workplace, ostracism phenomenon exists widely in all kinds of enterprises, and makes great influence on the organization and individual.
  作为职场冷暴力的一种，职场排斥现象广泛存在于各类组织中，并对组织和个人产生了巨大的负面影响。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• De Jesus's childhood was marked by prejudice and ostracism for several reasons: she was black, the child of a single mother, and very outspoken, even at a young age.
  德赫苏的童年充满了偏见和排斥，有几个理由：她是黑色的，孩子的单身母亲，非常直率，甚至在年轻时。