Ostracize

ostracize







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vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)



          1.    (古希臘)按貝殼流放法放逐

          2.    放逐;排斥



see evict





　

A Bartok-loving piano prodigy who is terrible at sports and a model student, Joshua is the kind of sensitive but bright young boy routinely ostracized for his intelligence. 



He worries about being "weird," a stranger in his own home. Could such a kid really be ripe for serial killing? At its scariest, during the slow build of off screen "accidents," 



Joshua [plays off] the neuroses of the child's neo-yuppie Upper East Side [parents]. 



Abby, acting out a kind of post-partum Rosemary's Baby, gradually goes insane trying to care for the newborn, who won't stop crying, and Brad soon follows.



neuroses

神經官能病;神經症



see neurotic 



catatonic 

hypochondria