scold
英 [sk??ld]
美[skold]
- vi. 责骂；叱责
- vt. 骂；责骂
- n. 责骂；爱责骂的人
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词态变化
第三人称单数:?scolds;过去式:?scolded;过去分词:?scolded;现在分词:?scolding;名词:?scolding;
助记提示
1. 你像蛇一样冷酷。=> 责骂。
2. be scold for 受责备。
2. be scold for 受责备。
英文词源
- scold
- scold: [13] Scold was originally a noun, denoting an argumentative or nagging woman – the sort who had a ‘scold’s bridle’ fitted to keep her tongue quiet. It appears to have been borrowed from Old Norse skáld ‘poet’, the semantic link perhaps being the poet’s role of satirizing or poking fun at people (in Icelandic law in former times the term skáldskapr, literally ‘poetry’, denoted ‘libel in verse’). The origins of skáld itself are not known. Scold began to be used as a verb in the 14th century, at first in the sense ‘argue, nag’. The modern transitive use ‘reprove’ is not recorded until the early 18th century.
- scold (n.)
- mid-12c., "person of ribald speech," later "person fond of abusive language" (c. 1300), especially a shrewish woman [Johnson defines it as "A clamourous, rude, mean, low, foul-mouthed woman"], from Old Norse skald "poet" (see skald). The sense evolution might reflect the fact that Germanic poets (like their Celtic counterparts) were famously feared for their ability to lampoon and mock (as in skaldskapr "poetry," also, in Icelandic law books, "libel in verse").
- scold (v.)
- late 14c., "be abusive or quarrelsome," from scold (n.). Related: Scolded; scolding.
双语例句
- 1. Don't scold the child. It's not his fault.
- 别责怪那孩子, 那不是他的过错.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 2. Don't scold her, she's nothing but a child.
- 不要责骂她, 她只不过是个孩子.
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- 3. Don't scold too much.
- 别老是熊人.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 4. Don't scold him; it is not his fault.
- 不要骂他, 这不是他的错.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 5. You shouldn't scold him on the slightest pretence.
- 你不应该以一点点借口就责骂他.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》