alienate

1. V-T If you alienate someone, you make them become unfriendly or unsympathetic toward you. 冷落

The government cannot afford to alienate either group. 該政府承擔不起冷落兩個組織中的任何一個。

2. V-T To alienate a person from someone or something that they are normally linked with means to cause them to be emotionally or intellectually separated from them. 使疏遠

His second wife, Alice, was determined to alienate him from his two boys. 他的第2個妻子阿麗絲決心讓他疏遠他的兩個兒子。