Alienate

(verb.) make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated; 'the boring work alienated his employees'.

格特鲁德编辑

• By a feudal law, the vassal could not alienate without the consent of his superior, who generally extorted a fine or composition on granting it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Such opportunities as I have been enabled to alienate from my domestic duties, I have devoted to corresponding at some length with my family. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The bogey of the saloon had presented itself early: it was very clear that an affirmative position by the candidate was sure to alienate either the temperance or the liquor vote. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Once angered, I doubt if Dr. Bretton were to be soon propitiated--once alienated, whether he were ever to be reclaimed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I was not made the less so by my sense of being daily more and more shut out and alienated from my mother. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I'm afraid she's quite alienated the van der Luydens . 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• She meted out a wide space between us, and kept me aloof by the reserved gesture, the rare and alienated glance, the word calmly civil. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It is, in short, impossible for us to conjecture the causes or circumstances which may have alienated them, without actual blame on either side. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• He can, in this case, both restore the capital, and pay the interest, without alienating or encroaching upon any other source of revenue. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• What alienates him from the house? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

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