pillory

pillory什么意思,pillory翻译

基本解释

v.: 公开批评；抨击
n.: （古刑具）木枷
网络: 颈手枷；示众；嘲弄

权威解释

• 公开批评；抨击:

  to criticize sb strongly in public

• （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

英汉解释

• 臭名,笑柄

• 使遭人嘲笑

• 把…上颈手枷示众

词性分析

• 第三人称单数：pillories

• 现在分词：pillorying

• 过去式：pilloried

同义词

v.ridiculescorndenouncederidehumiliate

反义词

v.praise

例句

• 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！

• According to legend, what did Defoe"s pillory audience throw at him instead of the customary harmful and noxious objects?

  据说，示众现场的群众并没有像往常一样投掷有害和腐烂的东西，那么朝他投掷的是什么东西呢？

• That it should be so the world does not understand. The world mocks it and sometimes puts one in the pillory for it.

  这个世界不理解这一点，而只是嘲讽它，有时还因为它而给人带上镣铐。

• The shoes were often used in conjunction with the standing pillory (a device that holds your head and wrists in place while you stand).

  这种鞋子常常是联合直立用颈手枷（站立时枷住头部和手腕的一种装置）使用的。

• It should be easy enough to pillory bottled water.

  要对瓶装饮用水提出批评并非难事。

• But if he meant to pillory Israel"s hardline policies, going for Ms Livni missed the mark.

  但是如果他想将以色列的强硬派政客MsLivni套上镣铐就失策了。

• 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。

• Will those found guilty be dragged straight from the court to the pillory?

  那些看起来有罪的人会从法庭上被直接拉出去示众吗？

• Church leaders protest it is unfair to pillory Benedict, who has acted far more vigorously than Pope John Paul II to stamp out sex abuse.

  教会的领导抗议嘲弄本尼迪克特是不公平的，他在消除性虐待方面的表现要比教皇约翰•保罗二世积极得多。

• Even if all these people gave back double the amount they received and spent the week in the public pillory , it wouldn"t fix the problem.

  除非这些人交回两倍于他们收到的薪金，花一周时间示众，否则这事没完。