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

• 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。
• Outside the classroom, young men of their age faced ostracism and condemnation from society if they did not join the war effort as volunteers.
  在课堂以外，年轻男子的年龄面临排斥和谴责社会如果他们不参加战争努力作为志愿者。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• They faced hostility, contempt, ostracism.
  他们面对着敌意、轻蔑和排斥。