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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• She castigated him for having no intellectual interests.
  她斥责他没有智识兴趣。
• Do not castigate the very One that gave you life for life is not ending.
  不要谴责给予你生命的那个，因为生命不会终结。