| 英语单词 | reprehensible |
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| 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 | 1 [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]
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