单词 | to read a lecture |
释义 | > as lemmasto read (a person) a lecture 6. An admonitory speech; esp. one delivered by way of reproof or correction; ‘a magisterial reprimand’ (Johnson). to read (a person) a lecture. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > a lengthy lecture1604 jobation1687 ear-bending1930 ear-bashing1945 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. i. 67 So by my former lecture and aduise. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 337 I haue heard him read many Lectors against it. View more context for this quotation 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (ii. 5) 555 Often have you heard how much a superstitious wife, by her certaine lectures, hath wrought upon her Christian husband. a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Sea Voy. iv. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbbbb3v/2 Ye have read me a faire Lecture, And put a spell upon my tongue for fay[n]ing. 1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 85 I am not awed..with the dreadfull Catechisme of a Curtain Lecture. 1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 306 Which moral Lecture is out of its Place. 1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 243. ⁋4 He was then lying under the Discipline of a Curtain-Lecture. 1713 J. Addison Cato ii. i. 29 Numidia will be blest by Cato's Lectures. 1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. viii. 229 Our young bridegroom receiv'd a terrible lecture. 1846 D. Jerrold (title) Mrs. Caudle's Curtain-lectures. 1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists iii. 138 As confidential as a curtain-lecture. 1867 F. Parkman Jesuits in N. Amer. xix. 283 The missionary answered with a lecture on the duty of forgiveness. < as lemmas |
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