V-T If you castigate someone or something, you speak to them angrily or criticize them severely. 谴责 [正式]
Marx never lost an opportunity to castigate colonialism.
马克思从不放过任何谴责殖民主义的机会。
He castigated himself for being so stupid.
他责怪自己太笨。
The electric inspector was castigated for having failed to check the wire as he was supposed to.
电工因没有把他份内的电线检查好而被谴责。
Bank bosses have been castigated for fee-seeking gluttony, reckless lending and failure to heed the risks to their institutions.
银行老板因唯利是图、不顾后果地放贷和不留意自身机构的风险而被狠批。
How does this country end up being a Republic, the Third Republic, which has been castigated or been denounced because it seemed to fumble along?
为什么法国最后成为了一个共和国,即第三共和国,而第三共和国因治国无方,饱受职责和抨击
I would recite, whatever, the Articles of Confederation I would rise on my hind legs, quaking in my boots, and I would begin until I made a mistake, whereupon I would be castigated, berated, totally stripped of self-esteem by this monster who would that inflict the same pain on somebody else.
我会背,比如说,联邦条例,我会抬起我的后腿,它在靴子里颤抖,然后开始背,直到犯错,于是,我就会被批评严惩,自尊完全被这个怪物践踏了,他对其他人也会如此加注痛苦。
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