搜尋結果
ostracize
- IPA[ˈɒstrəsʌɪz]
英式
- exclude from a society or group;(in ancient Greece) banish (an unpopular or overly powerful citizen) from a city for five or ten years by popular vote
verb: ostracize, 3rd person present: ostracizes, gerund or present participle: ostracizing, past tense: ostracized, past participle: ostracized
- 釋義
動詞
- 1. exclude from a society or group she was declared a witch and ostracized by the villagers
- 2. (in ancient Greece) banish (an unpopular or overly powerful citizen) from a city for five or ten years by popular vote Themistocles was indeed out of favour at Athens by the end of the 470s, when he was ostracized