pillory 基本解释
- vt. 给…上颈手枷；使…惹人嘲笑
- n. 示众；颈手枷；使惹人嘲笑
pillory 词态变化
复数: pillories;第三人称单数: pillories;过去式: pilloried;过去分词: pilloried;现在分词: pillorying;
pillory 中文词源
pillory 木枷，公开批评，抨击来自古法语pilori,木枷，枷锁，可能来自拉丁语pila,柱子，词源同pillar,pole.原指在柱子上挂枷示众，引申词义公开批评，抨击。
pillory 英文词源
- pillory (n.)
- late 13c. (attested in Anglo-Latin from late 12c.), from Old French pilori "pillory" (mid-12c.), related to Medieval Latin pilloria, of uncertain origin, perhaps a diminutive of Latin pila "pillar, stone barrier" (see pillar), but OED finds this proposed derivation "phonologically unsuitable."
- pillory (v.)
- c. 1600, from pillory (n.). Figurative sense of "expose publicly to ridicule or abuse" is from 1690s. Related: Pilloried.
pillory 英文释义
- 1. a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the neck and hands; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn
pillory 双语例句
- 1. 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.
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- 2. The world mocks at it and sometimes puts one in the pillory for it.
- 世人对它大加嘲笑,有时甚至由于它还把人送上颈手枷.
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pillory 实用场景例句
- 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。
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- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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.
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- The world mocks at it and sometimes puts one in the pillory for it.
- 世人对它大加嘲笑,有时甚至由于它还把人送上颈手枷.
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