berated

英 [bɪˈreɪtɪd]

美 [bɪˈreɪtɪd]

v.  痛斥; 严厉指责
berate的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 怒斥；训斥
  If youberatesomeone, you speak to them angrily about something they have done wrong.
  1. Marion berated Joe for the noise he made.
     玛丽昂严厉斥责乔吵吵闹闹。

双语例句

• They berated each other for being selfish beseeched the court to grant a reading of the will.
  他们责骂彼此的自私，并恳求法院准许他们阅读一次遗嘱。
• His mother berated him for making a mess.
  他因捣乱而被母亲训斥。
• Analyzing the candidates 'body language has become as key to deciding the debate's winner as analyzing the rhetoric ( just ask President Obama, who was berated following his sluggish appearance in the first debate).
  分析候选人的肢体语言和分析他们的辩论术一样已经成为判断谁是辩论赢家的关键（只要问一下美国总统奥巴马，在第一场辩论中无精打采的表现后谁被斥责了）。
• He neglected key policy areas, most critically the fight against HIV/ Aids, an omission for which he berated himself in retirement.
  他忽视了关键的政策领域，尤其是在抗击艾滋病方面&他在离任后对这一疏漏自责不已。
• A couple of years ago, an investment banker berated me for using the word "murky" to describe the world of structured finance.
  两年前，一位投资银行家严厉指责我使用“一团黑”（murky）来描述结构金融（structuredfinance）业务。
• Akerson berated GM employees in an internal call for leaking information to the media& and, in short order, the contents of the call leaked.
  阿克森通过内部电话怒斥通用员工向媒体泄漏信息&结果没过多久，这通电话的内容也泄露了出去。
• German consumers, long berated internationally for not playing their part in supporting a global economic recovery, have increased spending at the fastest rate for more than two years, boosted by the government's car scrappage scheme.
  很长时间以来，国际社会一直责怪德国消费者没有起到支持全球经济复苏的作用。如今，受政府旧车换现金计划的推动，德国消费者支出创下了2年多来的最高增幅。
• Asian countries have been stamped upon by the west for centuries, he says, and until relatively recently were berated as basket cases unable to feed themselves.
  他表示，几个世纪以来，亚洲国家一直被西方打上烙印，直到不久以前，还一直被斥为不能自力更生的悲剧。
• The good girls are considered prudes and berated for not 'putting out' and therefore are seldom the first to get dates.
  好女人通常被认为过于一本正经，且因“放不开”而饱受批评，因此她们不会是男人约会的首选对象。
• The important role people played in history can never berated too much.
  人民在历史上所起的作用，无论怎样评价都不会过高。