| 词汇 | talking-to |
| 释义 | talking-to noun[ Cusually singular ] informaluk /ˈtɔː.kɪŋ.tuː/ us /ˈtɑː.kɪŋ.tuː/ a severe talk with someone who has done something wrong: 申斥，责骂 I gave her a good talking-to about doing her homework on time.我狠狠训了她一顿，让她按时做作业。 Chastising & rebuking admonishing admonishingly admonitory barracking bawl coal 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 Examples of talking-totalking-to You don't erase poverty by giving the poor a stern talking-to, he said. From Baltimore Sun Did the producers give the judges a talking-to for some reason? From The Star-Ledger - NJ.com He gave them a talking-to that was more emphatic than choice in its language. From Project Gutenberg I'll give him a talking-to this very night. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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