| 单词 |
berate |
| 释义 |
berate, v.|bɪˈreɪt|
[f. be- 2 + rate v. This word appears to have become rare in the 19th c. in England, but remained in common use in U.S., whence we have many 19th c. instances.]
trans. To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Mark xv. (R.) So is the veritie of the gospell berated and laughed to skorne of the miscreantes. 1572tr. Lavaterus' Ghostes (1596) 158 They all berated him for occupying his head about questions nothing appertaining unto him. 1601Holland Pliny II. 162 Antony..fell into a furious fit of choler, and all to berated..Toranius. 1855Motley Dutch Rep. vi. i. (1866) 779 Never was unlucky prince more soundly berated by his superiors. 1864E. Sargent Peculiar III. 290 An ancient virago..was berating a butcher. 1871Meredith H. Richmond liii, What! You think he was not punished enough when he was berated and torn to shreds in your presence? 1881Boston Lit. World 22 Oct. 365/2 Berating Puritanism in his diary. 1893Times 1 Feb. 9/5 The famous allocution in which he [sc. Sir James Mathew] berated Lord Clanricarde before a single witness had been heard. 1952M. Laski Village xvii. 238 She perceived that Miss Evadne was not antagonistic, had not sent for her to berate her. 1965Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Sept. 834/1 ‘She is..an assiduous toady, and a petty thief.’ Further to berate her or the book would be supererogatory. |
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