Word · Frequency #14568
outcast
被排斥者；被遗弃者
a person who is rejected by society or home
- 1.
One that has been excluded from a society or a system, a pariah, a leper.
被社会或系统排斥的人；弃儿；麻风病人。
- 2.
Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit.
局外人:不属于某群体的人,不合群者。
- 3.
The amount of increase in the bulk of grain during malting.
麦芽制造过程中谷物体积的增加量。
被社会或系统排斥的人；弃儿；麻风病人。；局外人:不属于某群体的人,不合群者。；麦芽制造过程中谷物体积的增加量。；被驱逐的人；流浪者
In use
After changing schools, he felt like an outcast until he found some friends.
The team treated the quiet new member as an outcast at first.
In the small town, anyone who disagreed with local customs quickly became an outcast.
n. be an outcast (in/from sth)
in 后接群体，from 后接被排斥的来源。
He was an outcast in his own family.
他在自己家里是个被排斥的人。
n. treat sb as an outcast
as 不能省略，表示“把……当作……”。
The villagers treated the stranger as an outcast.
村民们把这个陌生人当作被驱逐者。
adj. feel outcast
形容词 outcast 常用在系动词后作表语，不带冠词。
Connections
Collocations
- social outcast
- 被社会排斥的人；社会弃儿
- After the scandal, she was treated as a social outcast.丑闻之后，她被当作被社会排斥的人对待。
- feel like an outcast
- 感觉自己像个被排斥的人
- Moving to a new town made him feel like an outcast.搬到新城镇让他感觉自己像个被排斥的人。
- treat someone as an outcast
- 把某人当作被排斥者对待
- The classmates treated him as an outcast because of his accent.因为口音，同学们把他当作被排斥者对待。
- become an outcast
- 成为被排斥的人
- He became an outcast in his own family after the quarrel.那次争吵之后，他在自己家里成了被排斥的人。
Pop culture & quotes
- I'm an outcast, I'm a fool, I'm a freak.
- 我是被遗弃的人，我是傻瓜，我是怪胎。Quasimodo feels like an outcast because of his appearance.
Learner notes
Memory Tip
联想：out（出）+ cast（投掷）→ 被抛出去的人，即被社会或家庭遗弃者。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：social commentary、literary narrative、news discussion 指被社会或群体排斥的人，语气中性但略偏书面，多用于社会评论、文学作品或新闻报道中；日常口语中谈到某人被孤立时也常说，但往往带同情色彩。
Pronunciation & Spelling
末尾读 /kæst/ 的词：cast, broadcast, forecast, podcast；它们与 outcast 的 -cast 拼写和读音相同，但重音在第一个音节，所以不算严格押韵。注意 outlast /ˌaʊtˈlæst/ 拼写几乎相同，但第二音节是 /læst/；past /pæst/ 与 cast 仅首字母不同；coast /koʊst/ 拼写相似但读音完全不同。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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