talking-to

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈtɔː.kɪŋ.tuː]
• 美式音标 [ˈtɑː.kɪŋ.tuː]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n. 责备；责骂；申斥

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英汉例句

双语例句

• The teacher gave the lazy boy a good talking-to.
  老师把那个懒学生狠狠地批评了一顿。
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• Except, isn’t that a fundamental talking-to-a-man rule?
  只是，这难道不是与男生交谈的一个基本规则吗？
• Commerzbank suspended the payments this year, following a stern talking-to by Germany’s bank regulator and its bank bail-out fund.
  今年，被德国银行监管机构及其银行应急基金会严厉斥责后，德国商业银行停止了今年的利息支出。

原声例句

• A well-known example was when women's education groups objected to a talking Barbie that declared, among other things, "Math class is tough!"
• It assumes that--William James assumes he's talking to males, male humans who sometimes take the perspective of male bears.
  他体现在，威廉，詹姆斯,他在同男性讲话，男性有时,从公熊的角度思考。
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• But so when I say "family"-- we try to avoid even talking about "the Roman family," because it means something so different to them than what it means to us.
  所以我说家庭时-,我们尽量不用来指“罗马家庭“,因为这个词古今意思截然不同。
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权威例句

• Particularly resistant surgeons, Kotagal says, were taken out for coffee by their bosses and given a stern talking-to.
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词组短语

短语

• talking - to 斥责
• Give A Talking -to 呲
• Give someone a good talking -to 强烈批评某人
• give a good talking -to 打嘴巴
• give sb a talking -to 责备某人一顿

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• a severe talk with someone who has done something wrong

柯林斯英英字典

• If you give someone a talking-to, you speak to them severely, usually about something unacceptable that they have done, in order to show them they were wrong.