單詞詳解 | ostracize


ostracize
音標(biāo):
英音/ ??str?sa?z /美音/ ?ɑ?str?sa?z /
聽聽基本釋意:
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外刊例句:
He said that his family has been ostracized and he has prayed alone in his jail cell.
他說他的家人遭到排斥,他獨(dú)自在牢房里祈禱。
—New York Times
What democracies need, he added, are investments in improvements — the best ideas, no matter where they come from — and a strong commitment to ostracizing those who violate rules and norms.
他補(bǔ)充說,民主國家需要的是對改進(jìn)的投資——最好的想法,無論它們來自哪里——以及對排斥那些違反規(guī)則和規(guī)范的人的堅定承諾。
—New York Times
“These women essentially sold themselves to save their families. … Rather than being supported, they were ostracized,” she said.
“這些女性實(shí)際上是為了拯救家人而出賣自己的。 ……他們非但沒有得到支持,反而遭到排斥,”她說。
—Washington Post
基本釋意:
verb
expel from a community or group
放逐;排斥;按貝殼流放法放逐
同義詞:
ban,banish,blackball,cast out,ostracise,shun,ostracise
短釋義:
Ostraka is an ancient Greek word for pottery shard. Thousands of years ago, in the Greek city of Athens, there was a public process where you would write the name of someone you wanted to kick out of town on a broken ceramic fragment. If enough Athenians wrote the same name, that person was sent away for ten years. This process was called an ostracism.
如果你驅(qū)逐某人或忽視他,你就是在排斥他。當(dāng)伊朗總統(tǒng)聲稱大屠殺是一場騙局時,他遭到了國際社會的排斥。
長釋義:
Ostraka is an ancient Greek word for pottery shard. Thousands of years ago, in the Greek city of Athens, there was a public process where you would write the name of someone you wanted to kick out of town on a broken ceramic fragment. If enough Athenians wrote the same name, that person was sent away for ten years. This process was called an ostracism.
Ostraka 是古希臘語,意為陶器碎片。幾千年前,在希臘雅典城,有一個公共程序,你可以在一塊破碎的陶瓷碎片上寫下你想踢出城的人的名字。如果有足夠多的雅典人寫下同樣的名字,這個人就會被放逐十年。這個過程被稱為排斥。
文學(xué)例句:
“We used to ostracize everyone, even each other.”
“我們曾經(jīng)排斥所有人,甚至互相排斥。”
—Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
“Bruno was bullied and ostracized, alone and afraid. The city was a large and unforgiving place. Especially for those who seemed different. Especially for those who had no family, no community.”
“布魯諾受到欺凌和排斥,孤獨(dú)而害怕。這座城市是一個巨大而無情的地方。尤其是對于那些看起來與眾不同的人。尤其是對于那些沒有家庭、沒有社區(qū)的人來說?!?br>—I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day
Sentenced to prison for treason, Burnham instead winds up as an ostracized temp on the USS Discovery.
伯納姆因叛國罪被判入獄,但最終成為發(fā)現(xiàn)號航空母艦上被排斥的臨時工。
—Perspective | TV needs a really great space saga. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ comes close, but the longing remains. by https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hank-Stuever/71611518791
詞源:
ostracize?(v.)”exile by ostracism, banish by popular vote,” also in a figurative sense, “to exclude from society or favor,” 1640s, from Latinized form of Greek ostrakizein “to banish,” literally “to banish by voting with potshards” (see ostracism). Related: Ostracization; ostracized; ostracizing.Related entries & more
下面是詞源的翻譯(機(jī)器翻譯比較難翻,參考著看)
ostracize (v.)“通過排斥而流放,通過民眾投票驅(qū)逐”,也有比喻意義,“從社會或青睞中排除”,1640年代,源自希臘語ostrakizein的拉丁化形式“驅(qū)逐”,字面意思是“通過投票驅(qū)逐”與陶器碎片”(見排斥)。相關(guān):排斥;被排斥;排斥。相關(guān)條目及更多