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词汇 reprove
释义 reprove
verb[ T ]
 formaluk /rɪˈpruːv/ us /rɪˈpruːv/
to tell someone that you disapprove of their bad or silly behaviour: 责备;斥责;指责
The teacher gently reproved the boys for not paying attention.男孩子们不注意听讲,老师委婉地责备了他们。
Synonyms
admonishformal
scoldold-fashioned
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Chastising & rebuking
admonishing
admonishingly
admonitory
barracking
bawl
carpet
earbashing
keelhaul
lambaste
lecture
pull someone up
punchbag
punching bag
put someone in their placeidiom
rap someone over the knucklesidiom
shame
spoken
tear
ticking-off
wigging

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This section focuses on reproving the following theorem using r. o. e. theory.
Both father and son were firmly convinced of the accuracy of their perspective, and neither reproved the other for exhibiting anger.
To reprove someone for her belief is to claim that she isn't entitled to it.
Smith gently and implicitly reproves me for stressing an overly sociological view of 'the archaeological'.
The previous results can be transferred to the integer setting, or the results can be reproved, using the same argument as above, and just changing the notation.
Pervasive in everyday human life is the practice of reproving and reproaching each other for our beliefs and our ignorances, or for how we formed or hold our beliefs.
I do not recall his exact words, but he rather reproved me and said that they had suggested nothing of the kind.
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I wish not to reprove, but to invite indulgence.
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That official was able to use that power in that way and no one thereafter tried to reprove him for it.
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I have often been reproved for saying rash things about pounds, shillings and pence.
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We were reproved, or to be reproved, for not having recognised the gravity of the situa- tion by proposing the reform of our fiscal system.
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I am sorry to start on this reproving note.
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I did that at the risk of being reproved by you.
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Some are reproved verbally on the spot, some may be cautioned, while others are prosecuted.
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It rests upon the allegation that a child was reproved by the inspector on the occasion of his visit to the school.
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