castigate

英 [ˈkæstɪɡeɪt]

美 [ˈkæstɪɡeɪt]

v.  严厉批评; 申斥

过去式：castigated　过去分词：castigated　现在分词：castigating　第三人称单数：castigates　复数：castigates　

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牛津词典

verb

• 严厉批评；申斥
  to criticize sb/sth severely
  1. He castigated himself for being so stupid.
     他责怪自己太笨。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 怒声责骂;斥责
  If youcastigatesomeone or something, you speak to them angrily or criticize them severely.
  1. Marx never lost an opportunity to castigate colonialism...
     马克思抓住每一个机会严厉谴责殖民主义。
  2. She castigated him for having no intellectual interests.
     她斥责他没有智识兴趣。

英英释义

verb

• censure severely
  1. She chastised him for his insensitive remarks
  Synonym:chastiseobjurgatechastencorrect
• inflict severe punishment on

双语例句

• She castigated him for having no intellectual interests.
  她斥责他没有智识兴趣。
• At Friday prayers, ayatollahs rail against the supposed influence of the West in Iran's affairs and castigate America for its evil deeds.
  在周五的祷告中，阿亚图拉们痛斥所谓“西方势力”对伊朗事务的干涉，并谴责美国的恶行。
• To do boldly what is righteous people for judicial protection, public praise those who do boldly what is righteous citizen, castigate those immoral people.
  对见义勇为的人给予司法保，公开褒奖那些见义勇为的公民，鞭挞那些道德败坏的人。
• Then what ideas did Mencken hold that made a newspaper like the Commercial Appeal castigate him publicly?
  那么门肯持有什么思想以至于让一家像《商业诉求报》这样的报纸公开地强烈反对他呢？
• But going to Turkey to criticise Israel and to disparage France and Germany, and then on to India to castigate Pakistan was not the best-laid plan.
  但跑到土耳其去批评以色列、诋毁法国和德国，然后又在印度斥责巴基斯坦，则不是什么上策。
• However, the Tokyo Trial of major importance not Certain to determine the guilt of the accused is not guilty, but justice, war crimes and appealed to castigate world peace.
  但是，东京审判的重要之处主要不在于确定某些被告人有罪无罪，而是伸张正义、鞭挞战争犯罪和呼吁世界和平。
• I am appalled that one so-called authority could castigate thousands of successful, worthwhile programs.
  我感到震惊的是一个所谓的权威竟然能够苛刻地批评成千上万成功而有价值的节目。
• They spoke the word of God to guide and admonish, to castigate and to console the chosen people.
  他们替天主传话：指引、告诫、批评和安慰天主的选民。
• The first is an inherent contradiction: one cannot castigate IT departments for being inflexible when they are using private cloud to deliver a flexible, on-demand computing environment for their businesses.
  首先是内在的自相矛盾：公司目前正在使用私有云提供灵活、按需提供的计算环境，因此不能苛责IT部门不够灵活。
• Then there is an outburst of national outrage among those who usually castigate ministers for their lack of frugality demanding that the spending taps be turned on.
  而到了那时，举国愤怒，那些原先不断指责大臣们没有节约意识的人，就会上下一致要求开大费用的龙头。