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词汇 nag
释义 nag
verb[ I or T ]
uk /næɡ/ us /næɡ/-gg-
to criticize or complain often in an annoying way, especially in order to try and make someone do something: 不断批评(或抱怨);跟…纠缠不休;唠叨
[ + obj + to infinitive ]My mum's always nagging me to get my hair cut.我妈妈总是唠叨着要我去理发。
If you stop nagging at me, I might actually do it.如果你不再烦我,我或许真的就做了。
I'm always nagging him about his diet.我总是对他的饮食提出批评。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Complaining
be/go on at someoneidiom
bellyaching
bemoan
bewail
brouhaha
bugger, sod, etc. this for a lark!idiom
carping
clamour
complain
grizzle
make noisesidiom
mutter
pardon
peep
remonstrate
representation
start on at someone
unreported
vituperation
whiner

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Disapproving & criticizing

Phrasal verb


nag (away) at someone
nag
noun[ C ]
uk /næɡ/ us /næɡ/

nagnoun[C] (PERSON)


someone who is always criticizing or complaining, especially in order to try and make someone do something:
Stop being such a nag, Mum.
I don't mean to be a nag, but I need you to clear this away now.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Complaining
be/go on at someoneidiom
bellyaching
bemoan
bewail
brouhaha
bugger, sod, etc. this for a lark!idiom
carping
clamour
complain
grizzle
make noisesidiom
mutter
pardon
peep
remonstrate
representation
start on at someone
unreported
vituperation
whiner

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Disapproving & criticizing

nagnoun[C] (HORSE)


old-fashionedinformal
a horse, especially one that is too old to be useful: 马;(尤指)老马,驽马
The town is full of horses no one wants - some of them perfectly healthy, but many of them starving, broken-down nags.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Horses & similar animals
Arab
Arabian
beast
beast of burdenidiom
bronco
donkey
equine
filly
gelding
hoof
horse-drawn
hunter
palomino
stallion
steed
thoroughbred
trotter
withers
working horse
yearling

nag | American Dictionary


nag
verb[ I/T ]
us/næɡ/-gg-
to annoy a person by making continual criticisms or suggestions:
[ T ]My mom’s always nagging me to get my hair cut.

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nag
The old nag is the voice of women and the downtrodden whose struggles will not dramatically change, regardless of political slogans.
In family interaction, for example, the case study is about nagging; in the workplace domain, about male banter and boasting in a stockbroker's office.
Upon servants devolves the responsibility for speaking what must be spoken - illicit desires, nagging suspicions, scandalous behavior - if the community is to function healthily because openly and honestly.
It tends, however, to leave room for nagging doubts about whether some less common but nonetheless crucial usage is still lurking tantalizingly in the unseen data.
Some even condemn the practice of voting, because, they say, if one's own candidate loses, the defeat will continue to nag oneself even against one's best intentions.
On the whole, the old nag tends to hobble along rather than gallop.
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They nagged for a pedestrian crossing and were turned down.
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The old broken-winded nag of illegal betting has been trotted out again this evening.
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By the end of 1975 concern about where they stood in relation to the law began to nag at many people using minibuses.
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They have nagged and nagged, and they have smelt of appeasement.
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Even now they are nagged by uncertainty, and their future is none too bright.
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The issue under discussion has nagged away for a long time.
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I reckon it a good citizen which ought to have a certain amount of support and not to be nagged at.
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I have nagged for its reduction ever since.
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We have been nagged and harassed for too long by the balance of payments constraint.
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