VERB 使疏远;使不友好 If you alienate someone, you make them become unfriendly or unsympathetic towards you.
The government cannot afford to alienate either group. 疏远两个团体中的任何一方都是政府承受不起的。
VERB (感情上、思想上)使疏远,离间 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.
His second wife, Alice, was determined to alienate him from his two boys. 他的第二任妻子艾丽斯,决意要疏远他和两个儿子的感情。