alienating

1. VERB 使疏远;使不友好
   If you alienate someone, you make them become unfriendly or unsympathetic towards you.
   1. 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。
2. 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.
   1. 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。

1. The board would risk alienating fields and create uncertainty as to who was running the company.
   董事会如果疏远菲尔茨，将会带来一定风险，还会造成一种不确定的氛围，让人无从得知谁会来掌管公司。
2. They also require ample forethought to avoid alienating customers, violating contracts, and racking up extra costs.
   但它们还需要足够深谋远虑，以避免疏远顾客、违反合约和承担额外开销。
3. Another classic trap is alienating your boss with your overzealous self-promotion.
   另一个典型的困局是：过度的自我推销，因而导致与老板疏远。
4. But speaking into this human-shaped mobile phone may prove far more of an alienating experience instead.
   不过要对着这样一个人形手机讲电话，不仅可能并没有亲近感，反而会身边的人更加疏远。
5. A hard line with delinquent debtors risks alienating customers temporarily lacking cash.
   对拖欠债务的债务人采取强硬路线有可能疏远这些暂时缺乏现金的客户。
6. Your workaholic ways are likely alienating once-valued associates.
   你的工作狂状态可能会疏远以前重要的同事。
7. I don't know, you're kind of alienating a large client there.
   我不知道，您可是在孤立一个很大的客户群呀！
8. Ego drive: Egomaniacal chief executives can end up alienating those around them.
   利己的驱动：那些极端自私的行政总裁最后会以别人的疏远而告终。
9. What does it take to avoid alienating the very people with whom were hoping to connect?
   如何才能避免让我们希望联系的人感到疏远呢？
10. Make your confidence work for you without going over the top and alienating coworkers.
    确保你自信的工作但也不会过了头以致被同事嫉恨。
11. In Tuesday's elections, the GOP got a lesson in the dangers of alienating Latinos.
    在周二选举中，共和党在疏远拉丁裔移民的危险方面得到了教训。
12. They are rewriting textbooks along what they call patriotic lines, alienating their Asian neighbors in the process.
    在重新编写教科书时，他们遵循了所谓的爱国理念，从而在这一过程中疏远了他们的亚洲邻国。
13. Knowing how to pursue an unflinching personal logic without alienating people remains a work in progress for him.
    明白如何在不得罪人的情况下追求坚定的个人逻辑，对他而言仍是一种需要进一步修炼的内功。
14. Feeling out of step with everyone else in the organisation can be a very alienating business.
    感到与组织中的其他每个人都不协调，很容易疏远关系。
15. How can you appeal to them without alienating the mainstream crowd?
    你是怎么在不疏忽主流玩家的情况下吸引住他们呢？
16. Can you afford to keep alienating them?
    您能够承受的起失去他们的支持吗？
17. That stock price is the only thing covering our debt and you are alienating our biggest client.
    股票市值是我们唯一可以掩盖债务的东西，可是你却疏远我们的大客户。
18. This would have comported with Lincoln's personal convictions, but as president he felt compelled to balance these convictions against the danger of alienating half of the Union constituency.
    这与林肯的个人信条是一致的，但是身为总统，他发觉自己不得不在这种信念和疏远半数联邦选民的风险之间进行衡平。
19. It was, she says, a very alienating period.
    她说，那是她感觉很疏离的时期。
20. It is both intimate and alienating at the same time, which is a freaky combination.
    亲密与疏远同时存在，真是一对畸形的组合。
21. We can't risk alienating the Star Trek fans.
    不可怠慢了的爱好者。
22. Her sudden alienating aloofness.
    她那突然的、令人疏远的超然态度。
23. Badly done, sucking up can end up alienating everyone.
    如果做得不好，拍马屁可能最终会让每个人都疏远你。
24. That can be pretty alienating: he or she is unlikely to know what is going on.
    很可能会造成上下级相互疏远：他（或她）将无法知道公司的情况。
25. You have a flair for alienating people.
    你确实有疏远他人的天赋。
26. This world must have been a cold and alienating place for a boy like that.
    这个世界对那个男孩一定既冷酷又遥远。
27. This seems like a recipe for alienating rich countries.
    这似乎是离间富国不错的法子。
28. Company B's alienating two mortgaged cars is illegal.
    公司转让设立抵押的两辆汽车不符合法律规定。
29. I see a risk of alienating her as a friend if I tell her how I feel for her.
    我觉得，如果告诉她我对她的感觉，与她之间的朋友关系就有可能疏远。
30. The company risks alienating its faithful customers with its new modern image.
    这个公司以新的现代的形象出现，有疏离他们的忠实顾客的危险。

adj

1. causing hostility or loss of friendliness
   1. her sudden alienating aloofness