pillory
GRE,1
英['pɪlərɪ]
|美['pɪləri]
n.颈手枷
vt.使受公众嘲笑;将…示众;给…上颈手枷;处…以枷刑
日语:さらし台
法语:pilori
德语:Pranger
韩语:칼
俄语:picota
牛津词典
verb
- 公开批评;抨击
to criticize sb strongly in public
- He was regularly pilloried by the press for his radical ideas.
他因观点极端而经常受到新闻界的抨击。
noun
- (古刑具)木枷,颈手枷
a wooden frame, with holes for the head and hands, which people were locked into in the past as a punishment
同、反义词
同义词:
v.
ridicule,scorn,denounce,deride,humiliate
词形变化
过去分词:pilloried 第三人称单数:pillories 过去式:pilloried 名词复数形式:pillories 现在分词:pillorying
双语例句
- A man has been forced to resign as a result of being pilloried by some of the press.
一人因为受到一些媒体的抨击已被迫辞职。
- He wants a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, requires a Little sense of victory, a roll of the drums, to call his powers into full exercise.
他需要谬论供他批驳,需要错误让他嘲笑,更需要一点胜利的气氛,一阵鼓声,以便最大限度发挥他的本事。
- As the sacred edifice was too much thronged to admit another auditor, she took up her position close beside the scaffold of the pillory.
由于神圣的大厦中挤得人山人海,再也无法容纳新的听讲人,她只好在紧靠刑台的地方占了个位置。
- Be that as it might, the scaffold of the pillory was a point of view that revealed to Hester Prynne the entire track along which she had been treading, since her happy infancy.
无论如何,这座示众刑台成了一个了望点,在海丝特白兰面前展现山自从她幸福的童年以来的全都轨迹。
- At a time when there is international concern about the number and quality of science graduates, we cannot afford to pillory schools that are getting results, irrespective of sector.
当国际社会对理工科毕业生的数量和质量表示关注的时候,我们不能总是当众侮辱所得到的结果。
- Inside the pagoda, there is a small India-made iron stupa, in which some remains of Skt Sakyamuni are kept. then the abbot's pillory, a pretty little round tower, well capped with a leaden cone;
塔内还有一印度小铁塔,释迎牟尼舍利子便安放在小铁塔内。接着是寺院住持的耻辱柱,那是漂亮的小圆塔,塔顶有个铅皮的塔锥。
- She is pillory in the press for her extravagant parties.
她的聚会十分铺张,新闻界对她大加揶揄。
- Criticising all with hardly more reverence than the Indian would feel for the clerical band, the judicial robe, the pillory, the gallows, the fireside, or the church.
她几乎和印第安人一样,以不屑的态度批评牧师的丝带,法官的黑袍,颈手枷,绞刑架,家庭或教会。
- Meanwhile Hester Prynne was standing beside the scaffold of the pillory, with the scarlet letter still burning on her breast!
与此同时,海丝特-白兰却站在刑台的旁边,胸前依然灼烧着红字!
- It was famous, too, for the pillory, a wise old institution, that inflicted a punishment of which no one could foresee the extent;
这监狱还以枷刑闻名。那是一种古老而聪明的制度,那种惩罚伤害之深没有人可以预见。
语源
Middle English: from Old French pilori, probably from Provençal espilori(associated by some with a Catalan word meaning peephole, of uncertain origin)