ticking off

英 [ˌtɪkɪŋ ˈɒf]

美 [ˌtɪkɪŋ ˈɔːf]

n.  斥责; 责骂; 申斥

牛津词典

noun

• 斥责；责骂；申斥
  the act of telling sb that they have done sth to make you angry

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 斥责;责骂
  If you give someone aticking off, you speak angrily to them because they have done something wrong.
  1. They got a ticking off from the police.
     他们被警察训斥了一通。

双语例句

• I hope that once the Secretariat is re-established, the members of the Central Committee and the State Council will set an example by solving problems collectively and stop the practice of just ticking off documents in their separate offices.
  我希望，从重新建立书记处开始，中央和国务院要带头搞集体办公制度，不要再光画圈圈了。
• They got a ticking off from the police.
  他们被警察训斥了一通。
• A wolf is like a ticking bomb, it can go off at any moment, he warned.
  他警告说：狼就像是一颗***，随时可能爆炸。
• Each taxicab is fitted with a meter ticking off the fare due.
  每辆出租汽车都有一个算出应付车费的计程表。
• I have nothing wrong with the "let them know you're there in the first few minutes" approach, but injuring an opponent surely warrants more punishment than a light ticking off?
  我觉得“让他们从一开始就领教你的厉害”没什么不对。但把人弄伤和随便踢一脚应该不一样吧？
• But when an enterprising scientist placed a fiddler crab in darkness, he was amazed to find that the color of the crab's shell kept ticking off the time with the same accuracy.
  但是，当一个勇于探索的科学家把招潮蟹放在黑暗中，他惊讶的发现蟹壳的颜色依然准确的按时间转变。
• And she began ticking them off on her fingers.
  她开始扳着手指罗列这些名字。
• He took them through the schedule slowly, ticking each item off on his fingers.
  他慢慢地排着日程，扳着手指一项项核对。
• Seven more days, he thought, lightly ticking off the second square, which was filled with notes on his work for the day.
  还有七天，他计算着，把写满了工作内容的第二个格轻轻地勾掉。
• Then, when time becomes available, make a point of ticking a few of these activities off of the list.
  然后当你有时间完成时，注意把清单上已经做过的活动勾掉。