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

• 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？
• 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。
• She could not find sufficient reproaches with which to castigate herself.
  她找不出充分的理由非难自己。
• She castigated him for having no intellectual interests.
  她斥责他没有智识兴趣。
• 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。
• We just want to explain our inner demands and desires and to express the outer world that we would like to eulogize and castigate by depending on a language sign.
  我们无非是借着一个语言符号来诠释我们的内在需求和欲望，来表达我们想讴歌或者是鞭挞的客观世界。
• 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。
• 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。
• The principal castigate the student who have insult their teacher.
  校长谴责对老师不敬的学生。
• In a word, this article aims at completely and comprehensively explaining the crime of taxation so as to do some valuable studies to effectively castigate and prevent committing a crime of taxation.
  力求全面地、宏观地认识税收犯罪，为有效惩治和预防税收犯罪做些有益的研究。