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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• In1904, he suffered a nervous breakdown from the anxiety and ostracism caused by his failed marriage.
  1904年，他遭受了精神崩溃的焦虑和排斥所造成的失败婚姻。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。