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alienate
英 [ˈeɪliəneɪt]
[VERB]
alienates , alienating , alienated
1. [T 及物动词] 冷落
If you alienate someone, you make them become unfriendly or unsympathetic towards you.
双语例句
例：The government cannot afford to alienate either group.
该政府承担不起冷落两个组织中的任何一个。
2. [T 及物动词] 使疏远
To alienate a person from someone or something that they are normally linked with means to cause them to be emotionally or intellectually separated from them.
双语例句
例：His second wife, Alice, was determined to alienate him from his two boys.
他的第二任妻子阿丽丝决心要离间他和他的两个儿子。