pillory
英['pɪlərɪ]
美['pɪləri]
- vt. 给…上颈手枷；使…惹人嘲笑
- n. 示众；颈手枷；使惹人嘲笑
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;
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。
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.
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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