shut out ( shutting, shuts )

• 1. 

  PHRASAL VERB If you shut something or someone out, you prevent them from getting into a place, for example, by closing the doors. 把…关在门外

  例：

  "I shut him out of the bedroom," says Maureen.

  “我把他关在卧室门外，”莫琳说道。

• 2. 

  PHRASAL VERB If you shut out a thought or a feeling, you prevent yourself from thinking or feeling it. 不让自己 (去想或感受)

  例：

  I shut out the memory which was too painful to dwell on.

  我不让自己去回忆那段会引起我太多痛苦的往事。

• 3. 

  PHRASAL VERB If you shut someone out of something, you prevent them from having anything to do with it. 把…排除在外

  例：

  She is very reclusive, to the point of shutting me out of her life.

  她很喜欢独处，到了要把我排斥在她的生活之外的程度。

• 4. 

  PHRASAL VERB In sports such as football and hockey, if one team shuts out the team they are playing against, they win and prevent the opposing team from scoring. (足球、曲棍球等) 使不能得分

  例：

  Harvard shut out Yale, 14-0.

  哈佛队让耶鲁队一分未得，以14比０获胜。

• 5. 

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