Scourge
[skɜːdʒ] or [skɝdʒ]
解释:
(noun.) a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor).
(verb.) punish severely; excoriate.
尤金伲亚整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip.
(n.) Hence, a means of inflicting punishment, vengeance, or suffering; an infliction of affliction; a punishment.
(n.) To whip severely; to lash.
(n.) To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict, as for sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction.
(n.) To harass or afflict severely.
贾维斯整理
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Whip, lash, thong, strap, cowhide.[2]. Punishment, affliction, curse, pest, bane, plague, annoyance, infliction, nuisance.
v. a. [1]. Lash, whip.[2]. Punish, chastise, chasten.
克洛伊校对
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Punishment, bane, curse, undoing, visitation
ANT:Blessing, redemption, saving, reward, benefaction
手打:西格蒙德
解释:
n. a whip made of leather thongs: an instrument of punishment: a punishment: means of punishment.—v.t. to whip severely: to punish in order to correct.—n. Scour′ger a flagellant.
校对:伦道夫
例句:
- Inquiry was made into the origin of the scourge, and by degrees various facts came out which excited public indignation in a high degree. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- I have a tough hide, that will bear knife or scourge as well as any boar's hide in my herd. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Get thy wounds healed, purvey thee a better horse, and it may be I will hold it worth my while to scourge out of thee this boyish spirit of bravado. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I was the scourge of both, and that is referable to her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Warm from illuminations, and music, and thronging thousands, thoroughly lashed up by a new scourge, I defied spectra. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- He may strike the head from me--he may scourge me--he may load me with irons--but henceforth he shall never compel me either to love or to obey him. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Poor Rosamond's vagrant fancy had come back terribly scourged--meek enough to nestle under the old despised shelter. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- It is very painful, said Dorothea, feeling scourged. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Let her plant Medicis and build grand monuments over them to testify how gratefully she was wont to lick the hand that scourged her. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- That was in the great days of Pablo when he scourged the country like a tartar and no fascist post was safe at night. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- If I had--killed your--mother with my own hand--I should not deserve such a scourging to the bone as this. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
校对:赛克