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GRE 蓝宝

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 放逐某人
• ［英］ v. 放逐某人 ( send sb out of the country as a punishment)
• ［类］ evict : residence / banish : country ( 驱逐从住处赶出 / 流放从国家赶出)
• ［例］ He was banished for life .

Webster Collegiate

transitive verb

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French baniss-, stem of banir, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German bannan to command — more at ban
• Date: 14th century
• 1. to require by authority to leave a country
• 2. to drive out or remove from a home or place of usual resort or continuance
• 3. to clear away ; dispel <his discovery banishes anxiety — Stringfellow Barr>
• ? banisher noun
• ? banishment noun
• Synonyms:
  • banish, exile, deport, transport mean to remove by authority from a state or country. banish implies compulsory removal from a country not necessarily one's own <banished for seditious activities>. exile may imply compulsory removal or an enforced or voluntary absence from one's own country<a writer who exiled himself for political reasons>. deport implies sending out of the country an alien who has illegally entered or whose presence is judged inimical to the public welfare<illegal aliens will be deported>. transport implies sending a convicted criminal to an overseas penal colony<a convict who was transported to Australia>.

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