pillory

GRE畅通词汇

英 ['pɪlərɪ] 美['pɪləri]

释义

vt. 给…上颈手枷；使…惹人嘲笑

n. 示众；颈手枷；使惹人嘲笑

词态变化

复数: pillories;第三人称单数: pillories;过去式: pilloried;过去分词: pilloried;现在分词: pillorying;

中文词源

pillory 木枷，公开批评，抨击

来自古法语pilori,木枷，枷锁，可能来自拉丁语pila,柱子，词源同pillar,pole.原指在柱子上挂枷示众，引申词义公开批评，抨击。

英文词源

pillory (n.): late 13c. (attested in Anglo-Latin from late 12c.), from Old French pilori "pillory" (mid-12c.), related to Medieval Latin pilloria, of uncertain origin, perhaps a diminutive of Latin pila "pillar, stone barrier" (see pillar), but OED finds this proposed derivation "phonologically unsuitable."
pillory (v.): c. 1600, from pillory (n.). Figurative sense of "expose publicly to ridicule or abuse" is from 1690s. Related: Pilloried.

双语例句

1. She is pillory in the press for her extravagant parties.: 她的聚会十分铺张,新闻界对她大加揶揄.

2. 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.

英英释意

1. a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the neck and hands; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn

实用场景例句

He was regularly pilloried by the press for his radical ideas.: 他因观点极端而经常受到新闻界的抨击。

A man has been forced to resign as a result of being pilloried by some of the press.: 一人因为受到一些媒体的抨击已被迫辞职。

She is pillory in the press for her extravagant parties.: 她的聚会十分铺张,新闻界对她大加揶揄.

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.