| 单词 | scold |
| 释义 | scold I. 1. a. < she is an irksome brawling scold — Shakespeare > < afraid of going down to posterity as the despised scold in her husband's life — E.J.Simmons > < scourge of Presidents, constant dissenter and filibustering scold — L.E.Davies > < has become something of a public scold against the rebellious young — L.L.King > < only the squirrels, those born scolds, to reprove our indolence — New Yorker > b. 2. < put him in an ill humor by the scold she gave him — Oliver Goldsmith > II. intransitive verb 1. obsolete 2. < could come to terms if they came truly to grips instead of scolding at each other over a barrier of misunderstanding — Edward Sapir > < farmers … stood up in their wagons and scolded at the horses — Sherwood Anderson > transitive verb 1. 2. < scolded the … press, not only for undue emphasis on sex and crime but for failure to guess the outcome of elections — Newsweek > < scolded for attaching too much importance to phonetic similarity — C.E.Bazell > < scold the … investor for unwillingness to assume risks — J.F.Rippy > < scold the younger generation of writers severely for their sins — C.I.Glicksberg > Synonyms: see syn scold, upbraid, rate, berate, tongue-lash, jaw, bawl out, wig, rail, revile, and vituperate mean, in common, to reproach or censure angrily and more or less abusively. scold suggests the censure of a disobedient child by a mother, or implies irritation or ill temper < scold a child for getting home late > < one officer who had scolded his subordinates for picking apples from trees alongside a road while on a march — Hanama Tasaki > < a catbird … flew up on a lilac limb to scold us — John Moore > upbraid usually suggests a more or less justifiable anger < the Queen upbraided Henry for the scandal he was giving — Francis Hackett > < the scene in which Lincoln upbraids his schoolfellows for maltreating a turtle — Reporter > rate and berate suggest a more prolonged angry censure and, generally, abusiveness < rated himself most severely for this feeling of vengefulness — Howard Nemerov > < rated him for his want of tact — Adrian Bell > < berate the agent for his ill management of the estates — Pearl Buck > < heatedly berated the government's … attitude — Time > tongue-lash stresses the effect of severe unrestrained censure or berating upon the person berated < tongue-lashed them in a way that could be heard blocks off — Howard Fast > < tongue-lashes him about the exploitation of the workers — Time > The terms jaw, bawl out and wig (chiefly British) emphasize the energetic or noisy harangue that usually characterizes a berating < when we went home late for chores, we got jawed some — C.T.Jackson > < a tall, red-headed foreman whose chief asset was bawling out his men — H.A.Overstreet > < got a sound wigging in the current issue from one of their own and from a pair of practitioners in other fields — Time > rail, usually with at or against, is a strong, more abusive, usually contemptuous berating < rail against humanity for not being abstract perfection — T.L.Peacock > < physicians time and again rail at the courts for applying a test of mental responsibility so narrow and inadequate — B.N.Cardozo > < had called his people lazy louts … railed against his inclination to dreams — Sherwood Anderson > revile puts emphasis upon abusiveness more strongly than any of the others, and usually implies vilification < had to hear themselves reviled as traitors by lesser Americans — Kenneth Roberts > vituperate is interchangeable with revile though suggesting even more violence of censure or attack < with his angry face and his trembling hands vituperating him — Archibald Marshall > < how the sage reviled and vituperated the horrors of city life — A.C.Benson > |
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