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. 该政府承担不起冷落两个组织中的任何一个。

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. 使疏远

His second wife, Alice, was determined to alienate him from his two boys. 他的第2个妻子阿丽丝决心让他疏远他的两个儿子。