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单词 shun
释义
shun
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If you purposely stay away from someone, you shun that person. A sensitive baker may ask why you are shunning her cookies.
Although the verb shun means to deliberately avoid anything, it has a specific meaning in certain groups and communities. In this case, it means to ostracize or expel from that group or community. The Amish, for example, may shun members of their order who repeatedly ignore the beliefs and rules of Amish society. The word may also be used in more casual group settings. After many attempts at being polite, you and your friends began to shun the obnoxious woman who never let you get a word in edgewise.
WORD FAMILY
shun: shunned, shunning, shuns
USAGE EXAMPLES
Alaoui shunned the traditions of ethnographic “exoticism,” instead favoring a more egalitarian, respectful approach.
Time(Dec 30, 2016)
Consumers must shun Chinese products to weaken Beijing commercially and militarily, he writes.
Wall Street Journal(Dec 27, 2016)
They continue to appear to want to shun the outside world, just as they thrive, hunt game and farm.
The Guardian(Dec 23, 2016)
1v avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of
Syn|Hyper
eschew
avoid
stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something
2v expel from a community or group
Syn|Hyper
ban, banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize
expel, kick out, throw out
force to leave or move out
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