ostracize

英['ɒstrəsaɪz]美['ɑːstrəsaɪz]
  • vt. 放逐；排斥

    • 记忆方法

    词源记忆法
    公元前5世纪，古希腊雅典人民推翻僭主的独裁统治后，建立了民主制度。为了保卫民主制度，避免有野心的政治家恢复僭主政治，雅典人民实施一项称为“陶片放逐法”的政治制度。所有的雅典公民在一片陶片上刻上他认为可能危害雅典民主政治，需放逐的人的名字，将陶片投入票箱。如果有人获得超过6000张选票且得票数第一，则被放逐，期限为10年。
      verb(动词)
      1. 故意避开；排挤，排斥

    双解例句

    verb(动词)
    1. 故意避开；排挤，排斥

      His colleagues ostracized him after he criticized the company in public.

      他公开批评公司之后，同事们对他采取了排斥态度。

    小知识

    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.

    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.

    实用短语

    1. ostracize detail

      贝壳放逐

    2. ostracize ostrac

      贝壳

    3. ostracize include

    单词用法

    词根词缀
    词根 ostrac= tile 瓦片 ostracism n. 放逐；排斥 ostrac 瓦片 + ism 表名词 → 古希腊人投瓦片表示放逐人出境 → 放逐 ostracize v. 流放；放逐 ostrac 瓦片 + ize 使 → 流放；放逐

    同义词

    dispossess  /  blink

    同根词

    词根：ostracise

    n.

    ostracism排斥；放逐；贝壳流放法

    vt.

    ostracise（古希腊）贝壳放逐法；排斥（等于ostracize）