| 英语单词 | chastise |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [tʃæ'staɪz] 美 [tʃæ'staɪz] |
| 中文释义 | v.严惩;责难;鞭笞 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Should I applaud my husband or chastise him? (2) The leader chastised that man who made a mistake. (3) Our government chastised the behaviors of NATO. (4) My father used to chastise my brothers with whips. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 我是该称赞还是责罚我的丈夫呢? (2) 领导严厉惩罚了那个犯错误的人。 (3) 我国政府强烈谴责了北约的行为。 (4) 父亲过去常以鞭打惩罚我的兄弟。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Chastise is a fancy word for telling someone that something they did was really bad. If you pick your nose, your mom's gonna yell at you. If you do it in front of the Queen of England, your mom will chastise you. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Back in the Middle Ages, chastise used to also come with a beating––that sense of the word has passed, and in fact, people tend to use chastise when they are trying to accuse someone else of overreacting. "You're chastising me for forgetting to feed the cat, but it's not like the cat died!" |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]严厉训斥;责罚 If you chastise someone, you speak to them angrily or punish them for something wrong that they have done. [V n] [V pron-refl] [FORMAL 正式]
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