The show was so popular police had to turn people away.
演出過於火爆,警察只能把人們打發走。
Thousands of applicants are turned away each year.
每年都有幾千名申請者被拒。
b)turn somebody ↔ awayIGNORE to refuse to give someone sympathy, help, or support 拒絕某人
Anyone who comes to us will not be turned away.
不管誰來找我們,都不會遭到拒絕的。
The insurance company has promised not to turn away its existing customers.
保險公司承諾說不會對其現有的客戶置之不理。
c)turn (somebody) away from somebody/something to stop supporting someone, or stop using or being interested in something, or to make someone do this (使某人)停止支持某人;(使某人)停止使用某物,(使某人)不再對某人/某物感興趣
Consumers are turning away from credit cards.
消費者對信用卡逐漸失去了興趣。
events that turned Henry away from his family
使亨利疏遠家人的一些事
Examples from the Corpus
turn away• The scene was so sickening I had to turn away.• However, the children arrived on September 3 and were turned away.• Of course, alone I would have been turned away.• Hundreds of disappointed fans were turned away at the gates.• The club's so popular, we have to turn people away every night.• She frowned and turned away from him without speaking.• A number of vessels were turned away in the following days.• Alice turned away with tears in her eyes.
turn (somebody) away from somebody/something• I turn slightly away from her and count the balance of Haysoos's bills.• He knew exactly what he wanted and he had no intention of having anybody turn him away from his big ideals.• Maxine says, turning her attention away from me.• Instead he slowed down even more and turned farther away from our course.• What could have poisoned past happiness and turned its course away from our future?• Frustrationmounting, attentionturned toward altercations away from the play.• We will not let our angerturn us away from the pursuit of peace in the MiddleEast.• I turned abruptly away from them, but I was now very low, heading for a stand of trees.