decry

英 [dɪˈkraɪ]

美 [dɪˈkraɪ]

v. (公开)谴责; (强烈)批评

过去式：decried　过去分词：decried　现在分词：decrying　第三人称单数：decries　

TOEFL GRE TEM8

BNC.19796 / COCA.11621

牛津词典

verb

（公开）谴责；（强烈）批评
to strongly criticize sb/sth, especially publicly
1. The measures were decried as useless.
  这些措施受到指责，说是不起作用。

柯林斯词典

VERB （强烈）谴责，抨击，反对
If someonedecriesan idea or action, they criticize it strongly.
1. He is impatient with those who decry the scheme...
  对于那些反对该方案的人，他表现得很不耐烦。
2. People decried the campaign as a waste of money.
  人们谴责这一活动是浪费金钱。

英英释义

verb

express strong disapproval of
1. We condemn the racism in South Africa
2. These ideas were reprobated
Synonym:condemnreprobateobjurgateexcoriate

双语例句

What we are accustomed to decry as great social evils, will, for the most part, be found to be but the outgrowth of man's own perverted life;
我们惯常指责为社会灾害的东西，很大程度上都只不过肇始于人们自己生活的荒淫；
And it might take a brave energy minister to endorse a measure that many would decry as unvarnished protectionism.
而且，恐怕只有足够勇敢的能源部长，才会批准这种会被许多人斥为明目张胆的贸易保护主义行径的措施。
Both Robert Lucas, a Nobel Prize winner from the University of Chicago, and Robert Barro of Harvard debunk the power of the multiplier effect, and decry the burden borrowing imposes on future growth.
诺贝尔奖获得者、芝加哥大学的罗伯特•卢卡斯和哈佛大学（Harvard）的罗伯特•巴若均对乘数效应的有效性进行了批判，并强烈谴责借贷对未来增长造成的负担。
After all, these days it is popular for pundits to decry the dumbing down of the US media in general, and television in particular.
毕竟，如今评论人士喜欢谴责美国媒体总体水平低俗，尤其是电视。
On the left, people who struggle the hardest for social change would decry changes in other countries that they view as a result of globalization.
一方面，竭尽全力推进社会改革的人可能会谴责其他国家中他们认为由全球化引起的变革。
He is impatient with those who decry the scheme
对于那些反对该方案的人，他表现得很不耐烦。
A decade ago, it was fashionable for western consultants, bankers and business people to decry Japan's domestic service industry.
10年前，对于西方咨询顾问、银行家和商业人士而言，谴责日本国内的服务行业是一件时髦的事情。
It would be a complete mistake to decry love of power altogether as a motive.
对权欲作为一个动机全盘否定是完全错误的。
And, if so, is there anyone today who still would decry call-ahead airport pickup services?
即便如此，现在还会有人谴责机场预约接机服务吗？
Cultural historians and moralists have tended to write from an aristocratic point of view and to decry the breakdown of standards.
文化历史学家和道德家则倾向于从贵族的观点出发来论述，竭力反对打破一切标准。