admonition
admonition 英 [ˌædməˈnɪʃn] 美 [ˌædməˈnɪʃən]
n. 警告
名词复数:admonitions
- Bringing a skateboard to school is a great way to get an admonition from a teacher not to ride it down the halls. An admonition is advice with a hint of scolding, a warning not to do something.
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- n. 警告
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1. After being held for days or weeks, inadequately fed and sometimes beaten, they are shipped back to their home provinces with the admonition that they stay away from the capital.
他们被关了几天或几个星期后，不给足够的食物，有时还被痛打，这些人就被送回老家，并警告说不许再靠近首都。
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2. You want someone to keep in mind his mother’s admonition about not jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge just because all of his friends do.
当所有人都在跳下布鲁克林大桥的时候，你要让一个人牢记妈妈的警告，让他不要跳。
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3. Instead of assuming that God is on their side, perhaps Americans should heed Abraham Lincoln's admonition that our greatest concern should be "whether we are on God's side."
即便假定上帝和我们同在一方，或许美国人应当重温亚伯拉罕.林肯的警告，历史上那些最伟大的人所关心的，是“我们是否站在上帝的一边”。
- admonition (n.) late 14c., amonicioun "reminding, instruction," from Old French amonicion "admonition, exhortation," from Latin admonitionem (nominative admonitio) "a suggestion, a reminding; an admonition," noun of action from past participle stem of admonere "to advise, warn" (see admonish). Meaning "caution or warning about future conduct based on past failures" is early 15c. The -d- was restored in French, then (17c.) in English.
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