词汇释义
castigate TEM8IELTS GRE
UK /ˈkæs.tɪ.ɡeɪt/ US /ˈkæs.tə.ɡeɪt/
verb, If you castigate someone or something, you speak to them angrily or criticize them severely.怒声责骂，斥责
外刊例句
1. But where opposition leaders used to castigate Mr Saleh for letting the Americans infringe Yemeni sovereignty, they now tend to keep quiet; as part of Mr Hadi's new unity government, they feel they need America's support for him and his reforms.(The Economist)
2. In opposition he may become even more loved: not least because he will now be free to castigate the army's counter-insurgency efforts in the north-west, which are as unpopular as they have so far been hapless.(The Economist)
3. Thus did Naomi ("No Logo") Klein, self-proclaimed champion of the anti-capitalist Occupy movement, recently castigate carbon markets, green incentives and the close ties between companies and charities that have sprung up to support them.Ms Klein can be relied on to espouse any cause that annoys business.(The Economist)
4. He was right also to castigate the West's poltroonery in the years preceding the war, culminating in the Munich agreement.(The Economist)
5. Is it right to castigate east Africa for mismanagement while the petroleum economies of west Africa, notably Nigeria, have obliterated their animal and bird life and are polluting their wetlands?Read more about conservation in Africa.(The Economist)
6. A few months ago, it was still fashionable to castigate Vivendi Universal, a French media giant, for its lingering interest in the sewage and water-treatment business.(The Economist)
7. Supporters of the "deep state" that still dominates the security establishment were quick to castigate Egypt's newly installed, Islamist-tinted civilian government.(The Economist)
8. At Friday prayers, ayatollahs rail against the supposed influence of the West in Iran's affairs and castigate America for its evil deeds.At a 1,400-year-old 1,400-year-old 1,400-year-oldalleys, worshippers rush to the regimosqueefence.(The Economist)
9. Unless income from hunting is effectively distributed to locals, through local councils that have often squandered or filched their receipts from other types of tourism, populist politicians will castigate hunting, if it is brought back, as a return to "white man's Africa".(The Economist)
10. And the more used Democratic activists feel, the less likely they are to rush to the polls to castigate the Republicans.(The Economist)
11. It is popular at dinner parties to castigate politicians for their euphemisms and evasions.(The Economist)
12. A leader of Hamas, the Palestinians' main Islamist movement, used Facebook to castigate Mr Abbas for "normalising" relations with the enemy.(The Economist)
13. On September 24th he will speak at the UN General Assembly in New York, a forum his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, frequently used to castigate and bait Iran's enemies.The pace of change in Iranian diplomacy is remarkable, even unprecedented in the 34-year history of the Islamic Republic.(The Economist)
14. They castigate Hamas, the Brothers' Palestinian branch, for taking part in the territory's 2006 elections (which they won), for failing to apply the sharia, or Islamic law, and most recently for suspending the armed fight against Israel.In this section Stop-gap or long-term leader?(The Economist)
15. The two foreign secretaries who were the architects of that shameful policy, Lord (Douglas) Hurd and Sir Malcolm Rifkind, have taken every opportunity to castigate Mr Blair for his recklessness and naivety over Iraq.(The Economist)
词汇搭配
castigate people
词汇来源
"to chastise, punish," c. 1600, from Latin castigatus, past participle of castigare "to correct, set right; purify; chastise, punish," from castus "pure" (see caste) + agere "to do" (from PIE root *ag- "to drive, draw out or forth, move"). The notion behind the word is "make someone pure by correction or reproof." Compare purge (v.), from purus + agere. Related: Castigated; castigating; castigator; castigatory.
近义词
criticize, condemn, blame, charge, accuse, hammer, jaw, lambaste (or lambast), rebuke, reproach, scold, lash, upbraid
反义词
approve, endorse (also indorse),extol (also extoll), praise
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