ostracize
ostracize 英 [ˈɒstrəsaɪz] 美 [ˈɑstrəsaɪz]
vt. 放逐;排斥;按贝壳流放法放逐
进行时:ostracizing 过去式:ostracized 过去分词:ostracized 第三人称单数:ostracizes
- If you banish someone or ignore him, you ostracize him. When the Iranian president claimed that the Holocaust was a hoax, he was ostracized by the international community.
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- vt. 放逐;排斥;按贝壳流放法放逐
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1. " I've even seen managers allow their teams to ostracize or marginalize the top performer so that other people won't "feel bad.
有一些领导甚至允许他们的团队排斥或者边缘化这种高手以使其他人不会感觉很糟糕。
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2. You can see that our word ostracize comes from this “sending away for a decade” which in turn takes its name from the shell-like fragments.
至此,您可以看出,单词ostracize来源于这个“放逐十年的法令”。 而该法令本身的名字又取自于那些像是贝壳的碎片。
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3. In the podictionary episode on the word ostracize I talked about how the shells of oysters found their way into that word meaning “to shun” someone.
在对于《每日一词》ostracize 的介绍中,我曾经提到过,牡蛎的外壳是如何发展出“回避”某人(“toshun” someone)的意思。
- ostracize (v.) 1640s, from Greek ostrakizein "to banish," literally "to banish by voting with potshards" (see ostracism). Figurative sense of "to exclude from society" is attested from 1640s. Related: Ostracization; ostracized; ostracizing.
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