lock out

• 短语动词，指阻止某人进入某处，或将某人排除在系统或活动之外。

A phrasal verb used to indicate preventing someone from entering a place, or excluding someone from a system or activity.

不可数 · 及物 · 短语动词，可分

1. Prevent entryinformal

   To prevent someone from entering a place by locking the door.

   锁在门外

   • I accidentally locked myself out of the house.
   • The landlord locked out the tenants for not paying rent.
   • She locked him out of the bedroom after the argument.

   同义词barexcludekeep outshut out

   反义词admitlet

2. Exclude from participationinformal

   To deliberately prevent someone from taking part in an activity or process.

   排除在外

   • The new policy locked out small businesses from the market.
   • They locked out the opposition from the negotiations.
   • The system locked out users who entered the wrong password three times.

   同义词barblackballdebarexcludeostracizeshut out

   反义词admitincludeincorporateinvolvewelcome

基本动词lock