Reproach
[rɪ'prəʊtʃ] or [rɪ'protʃ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a mild rebuke or criticism; 'words of reproach'.
(noun.) disgrace or shame; 'he brought reproach upon his family'.
(verb.) express criticism towards; 'The president reproached the general for his irresponsible behavior'.
丹尼整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace.
(v. t.) To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid.
(v.) The act of reproaching; censure mingled with contempt; contumelious or opprobrious language toward any person; abusive reflections; as, severe reproach.
(v.) A cause of blame or censure; shame; disgrace.
(v.) An object of blame, censure, scorn, or derision.
弗里达編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Censure, blame, reprove, reprehend, REPRIMAND, upbraid.[2]. Revile, vilify, defame, asperse, abuse, speak ill of.
n. [1]. Censure, reproof, disapprobation, disapproval, blame, invective, upbraiding, condemnation, reprobation, remonstrance, reprehension, expostulation, rebuke, reprimand, railing, contumely.[2]. Dishonor, disgrace, shame, obloquy, opprobrium, odium, scandal, ignominy, infamy, abasement, indignity.
錄入:尼科尔
同義詞及反義詞：
[See APPROBATION]
SYN:Blame, censure, taunt, rebuke, upbraid, reprobate, reprove
ANT:Laud, praise, approve, commend
錄入:丽贝卡
解釋/意思:
v.t. to cast in one's teeth: to censure severely: to upbraid: to revile: to treat with contempt.—n. the act of reproaching: reproof: censure: blame in opprobrious language: disgrace: occasion of blame: an object of scorn.—adj. Reproach′able deserving reproach: opprobrious.—n. Reproach′ableness.—adv. Reproach′ably.—n. Reproach′er.—adj. Reproach′ful full of reproach or blame: abusive: scurrilous: bringing reproach: shameful: disgraceful.—adv. Reproach′fully.—n. Reproach′fulness.—adj. Reproach′less without reproach.—The Reproaches antiphons chanted in R.C. churches on Good Friday after the prayers which succeed the Gospel of the Passion their subject the ingratitude of the Jews in rejecting and crucifying Christ.
黛尔編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- I must reproach her with her faults, and then--she will throw the plates and dishes in my face! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Nay, pardon me, he replied; I have no right to command or reproach; but my life hangs on your departure and speedy return. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- A man of any rank may, without any reproach, abstain totally from tasting such liquors. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- She does her best to destroy my fortunes and her own, and she won't reproach me! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- You are very kind not to reproach me, she said: I weep, and a bitter pang of intolerable sorrow tears my heart. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- It's an unfortunate name, and I fancy I should reproach myself if I gave it to another dear child, and it proved again unlucky. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I will not reproach you, Charley. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- She reproached herself, coloured, and looked fearfully towards her father and mother. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- A thousand times she reproached herself, as with a crime, that she should revive to happiness with him. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- She told him how she had traced him, reproached him. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- But when I sat in the carriage just now and saw you coming along the pavement, I reproached myself. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- And as she looked at her husband's portrait of nights, it no longer reproached her--perhaps she reproached it, now William was gone. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He was implored, reproached, and belabored by his wife, who begged him to leave his furnace, and turn to work that would feed and clothe his growing family. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- And in his last breath reproached me for stooping to a boor! 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Yet this consideration does not, or rather did not in after time, diminish the reproaches of my conscience. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Your words are bitter, Rebecca, said Bois-Guilbert, pacing the apartment with impatience, but I came not hither to bandy reproaches with you. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- She had often vainly applied to her parents, as well as to her uncle, Lord Carysfort, who only wrote to load her with reproaches. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Sir Knight, said Rebecca, I would avoid reproaches--But what is more certain than that I owe my death to thine unbridled passion? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Is it likely that I would wilfully add to my other self-reproaches, that of being ungrateful or treacherous to you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- But I make no reproaches. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- There was pain and there was pleasure in the girl's face as she listened to these implied reproaches. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But he'll cry himself sick, pleaded Meg, reproaching herself for deserting her boy. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- You are reproaching me, underhanded, with having nobody but you to look to. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- This is strange indeed, when your eyes have been reproaching them every day for incautiousness. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- There on his table, his sister's letter lay reproaching him. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I knew that he still had the diary, for when I was in Siberia I had a letter from him once, reproaching me and quoting some passages from its pages. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
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