decry

英 [dɪˈkraɪ]

美 [dɪˈkraɪ]

v.  (公开)谴责; (强烈)批评

过去式：decried　过去分词：decried　现在分词：decrying　第三人称单数：decries　

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BNC.19796 / COCA.11621

牛津词典

verb

• （公开）谴责；（强烈）批评
  to strongly criticize sb/sth, especially publicly
  1. The measures were decried as useless.
     这些措施受到指责，说是不起作用。

柯林斯词典

• VERB （强烈）谴责，抨击，反对
  If someonedecriesan idea or action, they criticize it strongly.
  1. He is impatient with those who decry the scheme...
     对于那些反对该方案的人，他表现得很不耐烦。
  2. People decried the campaign as a waste of money.
     人们谴责这一活动是浪费金钱。

英英释义

verb

• express strong disapproval of
  1. We condemn the racism in South Africa
  2. These ideas were reprobated
  Synonym:condemnreprobateobjurgateexcoriate

双语例句

• "You seem to be a genuine cosmopolite," I said admiringly." But it also seems that you would decry patriotism. "During hypnosis, it is as though the brain temporarily suspends its attempts to authenticate incoming sensory information.
  你似乎是个货真价实的世界公民，我羡慕地说。不过，你似乎也抵毁了爱国主义。在催眠时，脑似乎暂时停止判断进入的感觉讯息是否真实。
• Why decry the wealth gap?
  贫富差距，为什么要谴责它？
• It is hardly surprising that a green lobby group should decry the practices of the logging industry.
  绿色环保团体谴责伐木公司的行为一点也不令人惊讶。
• It falls neatly into the growing genre of anti-higher education tirades that decry the rising cost of education and the lack of any guarantees.
  它们与一些越来越抵制高等教育的反对人士不谋而合，那些反对派谴责高等学府一方面不断提高教育成本，一方面缺少对学生未来就业的任何保障。
• On, no need to decry your industry!
  得了，您很勤快，不必谦虚了！
• On the left, people who struggle the hardest for social change would decry changes in other countries that they view as a result of globalization.
  一方面，竭尽全力推进社会改革的人可能会谴责其他国家中他们认为由全球化引起的变革。
• What we are accustomed to decry as great social evils, will, for the most part, be found to be but the outgrowth of man's own perverted life;
  我们惯常指责为社会灾害的东西，很大程度上都只不过肇始于人们自己生活的荒淫；
• Cultural historians and moralists have tended to write from an aristocratic point of view and to decry the breakdown of standards.
  文化历史学家和道德家则倾向于从贵族的观点出发来论述，竭力反对打破一切标准。
• It would be a complete mistake to decry love of power altogether as a motive.
  对权欲作为一个动机全盘否定是完全错误的。
• 'You seem to be a genuine cosmopolite,'I said admiringly.'But it also seems that you would decry patriotism.'
  您真是个真正的世界公民，我羡慕得说，但是这也让您显得有点毁谤了爱国主义。