n. hypercriticism ; castigation ; stricture
vt. castigate
如同一些苛评者所言，局限性并不意味着调查本身是错误的？ ~。
But that limitation does not mean, as some carpers argue, that it is mistake to hold it at all.
没有人能够公正地苛评或谴责他人，因为事实上没有人能够真正地了解他人。
No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.
尽管他不时对无辜文人苛评，对本国作家未必没有好处，至少告诉他们写作是严谨的行当。
Though he now and then "tomahawked" innocent victims, it was good for native authors to be warned that literature was an exacting trade.
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