Chastise
[tʃæ'staɪz]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes.
(v. t.) To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses.
欧内斯廷編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Chasten, correct, punish, castigate.[2]. Repress, restrain, moderate, check, sober down.
校對:路易丝
解釋/意思:
v.t. to inflict punishment upon for the purpose of correction: to reduce to order or to obedience.—adj. Chastīs′able.—n. Chas′tisement.
編輯:威尔玛
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of being chastised, denotes that you have not been prudent in conducting your affairs. To dream that you administer chastisement to another, signifies that you will have an ill-tempered partner either in business or marriage. For parents to dream of chastising their children, indicates they will be loose in their manner of correcting them, but they will succeed in bringing them up honorably.
編輯:帕特里克
例句/造句/用法:
- The conscience of the woman was troubled; she began to think that the deaths of her favourites was a judgment from heaven to chastise her partiality. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Spain chastised the Moors five or six years ago, about a disputed piece of property opposite Gibraltar, and captured the city of Tetouan. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- When he was disobedient she cuffed him, it is true, but she was never cruel to him, and was more often caressing him than chastising him. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- To the elder shall be assigned the duty of ruling and chastising the younger. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The Lady Rowena, said the Prior, has punished us all, in chastising the boldness of my friend. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- For example, the mother cat chastises her young for misbehaviour. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
編輯:维姬