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Reprehensible Strong 英 ˌreprɪ'Hensəbl] 美 ˌreprɪ'Hensəbl Adj.应受谴责的 Disloyal 他如此不忠,应受谴责

英语单词 reprehensible
英美音标 英 [ˌreprɪ'hensəbl] 美 [ˌreprɪ'hensəbl]
中文释义 adj.应受谴责的
英语例句 (1) It was reprehensible of him to be so disloyal.
中文例句 (1) 他如此不忠,应受谴责。
vocabulary简明 Reprehensible means deserving of blame or strong criticism. It is a strong word––your mother might forgive you for doing something bad, but something reprehensible? That's worse.
vocabulary扩展 Near synonyms are blameworthy and culpable. Antonyms are blameless and praiseworthy. The adjective reprehensible is from Middle English, from Latin reprehensus, from reprehendere plus the suffix -ibilis "deserving of, capable of." If someone is reprehended, they are blamed or strongly criticized.
柯林斯解释
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]应受斥责的;应该谴责的 If you think that a type of behaviour or an idea is very bad and morally wrong, you can say that it is reprehensible .
  [usu v-link ADJ]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • Mr Cramer said the violence by anti-government protestors was reprehensible.

    克拉默先生说反政府示威者的暴力活动应该受到谴责。

  • ...behaving in the most reprehensible manner.

    最应该受到谴责的行为

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