alienating 使疏远
离间
转让(alienate的现在分词)
- Is the new plan to stop being diplomatic and instead make bold, insulting statements alienating everyone?
新计划将会终止外交还是使外交激进,无礼的言辞离间了每个人吗? - You could run the risk of alienating valued colleagues if they learn you earn more for what they perceive to be the same job.
如果你让同事知道你们在做相同的工作,而你的工资比他们高,那么你就可能会被你很重视的同事疏远。 - But Mr. Summers also has a habit of alienating some people who could have been his allies.
但是同时,萨默斯的言行时常会离间一些本可以成为他盟友的人士。
alienating[ adj ]
causing hostility or loss of friendliness
<adj.all>
her sudden alienating aloofness
Alienate \Al"ien*ate\ (-[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Alienated};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Alienating}.]
1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or
right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of
averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to
estrange; to wean; -- with from.
The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and
priesthood from the House of Stuart. --Macaulay.
The recollection of his former life is a dream that
only the more alienates him from the realities of
the present. --I. Taylor.