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。
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。
After two years of being castigated by politicians for their irresponsible mortgage-ratings work, credit raters have turned the tables.
在因为不负责任的次债评级而被政客们敲打了两年之后,现在评级机构将局面扭转过来了。
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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