expel /ɪkˈspɛl/ star2 CET4 TEM4 (expelling,expelled,expels)

• 1.  

  V-T（及物动词） If someone is expelled from a school or organization, they are officially told to leave because they have behaved badly. 开除 [usu passive]

  例：

  More than five-thousand high school students have been expelled for cheating.

  五千多名中学生因考试作弊而被开除。

• 2.  

  V-T（及物动词） If people are expelled from a place, they are made to leave it, often by force. 逐出

  例：

  An American academic was expelled from the country yesterday.

  一名美国学者昨天被逐出该国。

• 3.  

  V-T（及物动词） To expel something means to force it out from a container or from your body. 排出

  例：

  As the lungs exhale this waste, gas is expelled into the atmosphere.

  当肺呼出这股废气，气体就被排到空气中。