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"Alienate" means to make someone feel like an outsider, unwelcome, or disconnected from a group - to push someone away emotionally, often without meaning to, or sometimes on purpose. A leader who never listens to their team can alienate the people working for them. A new policy that ignores one group's needs might alienate that whole community. It's a word about relationships and belonging going wrong.
使疏遠、使產生隔閡
組成From Latin "alienus", meaning "belonging to another, foreign" - the root behind words about being an outsider.
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- alienshares the Latin root alienus (foreign) - an alien is someone or something from outside, a foreigner or outsider
- alienationthe noun form - the feeling or state of being pushed away and disconnected
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
alienateadj詞源 1/ˈeɪ.li.ə.neɪt/
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archaicEstranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign
- O alienate from God.
alienatenoun詞源 2/ˈeɪ.li.ə.neɪt/
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obsoleteA stranger; an alien.
alienateverb詞源 3/ˈeɪ.li.ə.neɪt/
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To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
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To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted.
- The errors which […] alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart.
- The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present.
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To cause one to feel unable to relate.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。