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。
When you understand that discipline is self-caring, not self-castigating, you won't cringe at its mention, but will cultivate it.
当你明白自律是对自己的关心而不是自我惩罚，提到它你就不会再害怕而会注意培养它。
He was not a religious man, but he maintained a stark sense of good and evil, castigating others, as well as himself, for transgressions.
他不信教，但善恶分明，既严于律人，也严于律己。
However, as a newly rising royal force, it manifested the tradition of common people, which was shown by castigating the nobility and major conflicts within the family.
不过，作为新起的皇族势力，其门风依然表现出寒门的传统，在宗室政策上表现为苛禁诸王及家族内部的严重冲突等。
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