castigated

英 [ˈkæstɪɡeɪtɪd]

美 [ˈkæstɪɡeɪtɪd]

v.  严厉批评; 申斥
castigate的过去分词和过去式

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。

双语例句

• Companies are castigated for spending billions on research and development, only to deliver too many "me too" drugs and too few genuinely new ones.
  他们花费数十亿用于研发，仅仅提供了太多雷同而非真正的新药，为此，公司常遭到惩罚。
• The opera "white haired girl" moved millions of Chinese to tears with this true story that castigated the old society which turned humans into ghosts and celebrated the liberated society which turned the ghosts back into humans.
  歌剧《白毛女》以“旧社会把人逼成鬼，新社会把鬼变成人”的真实故事，感动了中国千千万万的老百姓。
• The progressive intellectuals forcefully deprecated and castigated the feudal view of virtue in terms of liberty and equality.
  当时先进的知识分子从自由和平等的高度对封建贞操观进行了猛烈的抨击与鞭挞，具有着鲜明的时代特色。
• He was castigated as a racist by his opponents.
  他被对手斥责为种族主义者。
• The US is often castigated for cultural imperialism, but Britain is the worse offender.
  美国常常因为其文化帝国主义受到谴责，但更应该受指责的是英国。
• In his poems, Xu Zhi-mo ridiculed and castigated forcefully the injustice in the society, showing his great sympathy for the working people and his strong hatred for the social confusions.
  而徐志摩的诗则对社会的不公正进行了有力嘲弄和鞭挞，表露出对下层人民的同情和对社会混乱的愤恨。
• Beckham has been castigated for going to a second-rate league, yet that is a result of a salary cap designed to create a more even competition.
  因为选择了一支二流联赛的队伍大卫受到了严惩，而工资封顶制度将会给他带来更严酷的挑战。
• He watched me closely and castigated me for mistakes.
  他在一旁严密监视，我一出错便大加申斥。
• The judge castigated the attorney for badgering the witness.
  法官因为辩护律师纠缠目击证人而谴责了他。
• China, long castigated for an artificially weak currency, has allowed its currency to appreciate gently against the dollar over the past five years.
  中国一直以来因为人为压低人民币汇率而遭受指责，但已经在过去五年允许人民币兑美元小幅升值。