estrangement

名词 n.
/ɪsˈtɹeɪnd͡ʒmənt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of estranging; the act of alienating; alienation. countable,uncountable
    — The impeachment crisis is also a symptom of a country caught in a massive political estrangement that is tearing apart any sense of common patriotic purpose. It has exposed a political culture in which the facts – in this case, of the President’s actions – are no longer sacrosanct and that has been laced with a fog of misinformation by his allies.
  2. The state of being alien; foreign, non-native. countable,uncountable

词形变化

estrangements plural

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词源

Old French estrangement. By surface analysis, estrange + -ment (“act, state”).
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