scold
scold 英 [skəʊld] 美 [skoʊld]
v. 责骂； 骂 n. 责骂； 骂
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- When you scold someone, you (often angrily) point out and criticize some fault or error. If you forget again to clean up your room, your mom might scold you for it.
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- v. 责骂； 骂
- n. 责骂； 骂
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1. He scolded them for arriving late.
他嫌他们迟到，训了他们一通。
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2. I got a scolding from my mother.
我捱了我妈一阵数落。
- 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.
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