1.But let’s not castigate “The Nutcracker” just because it is the cash cow of American ballet.
英:[ˈkæstɪɡeɪt]
美:[ˈkæstɪɡeɪt]
vt.
严厉批评
惩戒
对…实施严厉的惩罚
矫正,修订
cas·ti·gate
kae stih geIt
第三人称单数:castigates
现在分词:castigating
过去式:castigated
过去分词:castigated
castigation (n.), castigator (n.)
词根:castigate
n.castigation 惩罚;苛评;修订
transitive verb
to punish or rebuke, as with severe public criticism; chastise.In colonial days, thieves and other law-breakers might be publicly castigated in the town square.The senator was found to be involved in the sex scandal and was castigated in the press.
chastise, throw the book at
“to chastise, punish,” 约于1600年,源自拉丁语 castigatus,是 castigare 的过去分词,“纠正,使正确; 净化; 惩罚,惩戒”,由 castus “纯洁”(参见 caste)和 agere “做”(来自 PIE 词根 *ag- “驱动,拉出或向外移动”)组成。该词背后的概念是“通过纠正或责备使某人变得纯洁”。比较 purge(v.),源自 purus + agere。相关词汇: Castigated; castigating; castigator; castigatory。
If thou didst put this soure cold habit on To castigate thy pride, 'twere well. [Shakespeare, "Timon" IV.iii (1607)]
如果你穿上这件酸冷的衣服来惩罚你的骄傲,那就好了。【莎士比亚,《蒂蒙》IV.iii(1607)】
borrowed from Latin castīgātus, past participle of castīgāre "to discipline for a fault or lapse, reprove, censure," perhaps from *casti-, stem of *castis "reprimand" (going back to Indo-European *ḱHs-ti-, whence also Sanskrit śiṣṭi- "instruction") + *-ig-, going back to Indo-European -h2ǵ-, zero-grade of *h2eǵ- "drive, impel, lead" — more at agent Note: This etymology follows G. Dunkel, "Latin verbs in -igāre and -īgāre," 125 Jahre Indogermanistik in Graz (Graz: Leykam, 2000), pp. 87-99. According to the older conventional explanation, the initial element is the adjective castus "free from, untouched (by the thing specified), pure, not sexually promiscuous" (see chaste), but semantically this is a poor fit, and does not clearly account for the long ī. On the other hand, Dunkel's hypothesis would mean that Indo-European *ḱeHs- shows up in Latin only in this presumed i-stem derivative and nowhere else, unless castus itself can be attributed to the same etymon—but again that does not fit well semantically ("instruct, reprove" > "pure"?). See also the note at chaste.
The first known use of castigate was in 1606
castingnoun
the act of one that casts
something cast in a mold
cast entry 2 sense 9
castigateverb
to punish, scold, or criticize harshly
castigateverb
to punish, scold, or criticize harshly
castigateverb
to punish, scold, or criticize harshly
1.But let’s not castigate “The Nutcracker” just because it is the cash cow of American ballet.
2.He was eventually castigated by Israel’s first prime minister and branded a traitor.
3.Then what ideas did Mencken hold that made a newspaper like the Commercial Appeal castigate him publicly?
4.But soon Spencer launched his facepalmus ex machina of an aborted wire crossing and Rick was back in a factional head space, castigating Tara for endangering herself in order to help “these people.”
5.You were happy with the other two, I castigate myself.
6.Whoever you'd like to praise and castigate on that list, let's assume for the moment that they all mean what they say, and genuinely want to improve American schooling.
7.And while Mr. Wuorinen now acknowledges that his chosen style has fallen out of favor, he still doesn’t miss an opportunity to castigate tonal composers.
8.As with any bias, it became common to castigate an entire group for the behavior of an individual.
9.They tied up Sir Alfred in the library, banished his wife to the basement and took 19 paintings, including works by Vermeer, Rubens, Goya and Gainsborough, from a couple they castigated as “capitalist pigs.”
10.In recent years he has often been castigated for working with the type of big-money developers that he came to scorn in his youth, and his work sometimes seemed to get overly slick and refined.
11.She could not find sufficient reproaches with which to castigate herself.
她找不出充分的理由非难自己。
12.Since then it’s being castigated for those very same scenes.
13.The retired critic Robert M. Parker Jr. was one of these people, castigating those who would promote what he called “godforsaken grapes.”
14.Like her speech, in which she castigated Mr. Trump without ever saying his name, her dress spoke volumes while appearing, at first glance, to be entirely subdued.
15.He castigated those who saw the slaveholding South “as the citadel of the Devil.”
16.“No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others,” Daniels said in prepared remarks.
17.Even when the motive isn’t noble, though, there’s no more use castigating young social media influencers in 2024 than there has been in the past century of aspiring film and TV stars.
18.In the best histrionic village style, Sourmelina unleashed soaring arias in which she lamented the death of her husband and castigated him for dying.
19.It probably misses the point, though, to castigate McCandless for being ill prepared.
20.It’s an extremely delicate response: you would wait a long time for Jones to castigate Tambor, partly because castigation is simply not her thing.