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alienation

/eyl-yuh-ney-shuhn, ey-lee-uh-/US // ˌeɪl yəˈneɪ ʃən, ˌeɪ li ə- //UK // (ˌeɪljəˈneɪʃən, ˌeɪlɪə-) //

疏远,异化,疏离,疏离感

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of alienating, or of causing someone to become indifferent or hostile: The advocacy group fights against prejudice and social alienation of immigrants.
    • : the state of being alienated, withdrawn, or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection: the group's alienation from mainstream society.
    • : the act of turning away, transferring, or diverting: the alienation of land and resources from African peoples.
    • : Law. a transfer of the title to property by one person to another; conveyance.
    • : Statistics. the lack of correlation in the variation of two measurable variates over a population.

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Examples

  • I think what’s kind of neat is that he’s doing this thing where he’s presenting alienation in really dark tones, but it’s accepted in a way where it’s just like, this is fun, pop music, like he’s tricking us.

  • Conspiracy beliefs have also been linked to feelings of powerlessness, anxiety, isolation and alienation.

  • With “American Selfie,” she presents a queasily candid summa of the alienation, wounded psyches and media-siloed belief systems she’s been chronicling for two decades.

  • In 1968, depressed by the fact that his creations had exacerbated rather than cured the alienation and inequality of American suburban life, Gruen moved back to Europe.

  • There was this real gap between what the elite conversation was and how … this just brewing anger and sense of alienation among lots of different groups of people.

  • Poverty, alienation, estrangement, continuously aggravated by racism, overt and institutional.

  • But The Dog surpasses simply documenting the alienation endemic in the 21st-century global village.

  • This kind of thing sits in black American minds and creates a sense of alienation.

  • He was probably a perfect young candidate for moral alienation when confronted with the reality of war.

  • Deeper alienation and isolation can follow along with heightened chances of suicide and substance abuse.

  • In the close relation and affection of these last days, the sense of alienation and antagonism faded from both their hearts.

  • With regard to the latter he showed very plainly his alienation from Russian soil.

  • Her quiet confidence, while I was so dissatisfied, worked curiously towards the alienation of my sympathies.

  • All future tenures created by the king to be in free and common socage, reserving rents to the Crown and also fines on alienation.

  • These nightly retirements, in the sequel, gave rise to the first suspicion of his alienation from the church of Rome.