reprimand
reprimand 英 [ˈreprɪmɑ:nd] 美 [ˈreprɪmænd]
n. 谴责；训斥；申诉 vt. 谴责；训斥；责难
进行时:reprimanding 过去式:reprimanded 过去分词:reprimanded 第三人称单数:reprimands 名词复数:reprimands
- If you're reprimanded, someone in authority speaks to you in an angry way because you've done something wrong. Or you might reprimand your dog if he steals your hot dog.
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- n. 谴责；训斥；申诉
- vt. 谴责；训斥；责难
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1. Two colonels received letters of reprimand for those failures.
因为这些失败，两位上校收到了谴责信。
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2. One day as we reached the staging bungalow, I forgot to make it over to him and left it lying on a table. This earned me a reprimand.
有一天，在我们抵达一个驿舍时，我忘了把钱夹交还给父亲，而把它落在桌子上，这给我讨来一顿训斥。
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3. When Erskine asked Newt why they would proceed with impeachment instead of other possible remedies such as censure or reprimand, the Speaker replied, Because we can.
当厄斯金问金里奇为何不采用如公开谴责或训斥等可行的办法时，这位众议院议长的回答是：“因为我们能做到。”
- reprimand (n.) 1630s, from French réprimande (16c.), from Middle French reprimende "reproof," from Latin reprimenda "that is to be repressed" (as in reprimenda culpa "fault to be checked"), fem. singular of reprimendus, gerundive of reprimere "hold back, curb," figuratively "check, confine, restrain, refrain," from re- "back" (see re-) + premere "to press, hold fast, cover, crowd, compress" (from PIE root *per- (4) "to strike"). Spelling influenced in French by mander "to summon."
- reprimand (v.) 1680s, from reprimand (n.) or else from French réprimander (17c.), from réprimande. Related: Reprimanded; reprimanding.
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