pillory

英 [ˈpɪləri]

美 [ˈpɪləri]

v.  公开批评; 抨击
n.  (古刑具)木枷，颈手枷

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

GRE

BNC.22989 / COCA.27004

牛津词典

verb

• 公开批评；抨击
  to criticize sb strongly in public
  1. 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。

noun

• （古刑具）木枷，颈手枷
  a wooden frame, with holes for the head and hands, which people were locked into in the past as a punishment

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使受公众（尤指记者）批评；使受羞辱
  If someoneis pilloried, a lot of people, especially journalists, criticize them and make them look stupid.
  1. 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。
• 颈手枷（欧洲旧时用以将罪犯示众的刑具）
  Apilloryis a wooden frame with holes for the head and hands. In Europe in former times criminals were sometimes locked in a pillory as a form of punishment.

英英释义

noun

• a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the wrists and neck

verb

• criticize harshly or violently
  1. The press savaged the new President
  2. The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage
  Synonym:savageblastcrucify
• punish by putting in a pillory
• expose to ridicule or public scorn
  Synonym:gibbet

双语例句

• Be that as it might, the scaffold of the pillory was a point of view that revealed to Hester Prynne the entire track along which she had been treading, since her happy infancy.
  无论如何，这座示众刑台成了一个了望点，在海丝特白兰面前展现山自从她幸福的童年以来的全都轨迹。
• Meanwhile Hester Prynne was standing beside the scaffold of the pillory, with the scarlet letter still burning on her breast!
  与此同时，海丝特-白兰却站在刑台的旁边，胸前依然灼烧着红字！
• It was famous, too, for the pillory, a wise old institution, that inflicted a punishment of which no one could foresee the extent;
  这监狱还以枷刑闻名。那是一种古老而聪明的制度，那种惩罚伤害之深没有人可以预见。
• Inside the pagoda, there is a small India-made iron stupa, in which some remains of Skt Sakyamuni are kept. then the abbot's pillory, a pretty little round tower, well capped with a leaden cone;
  塔内还有一印度小铁塔，释迎牟尼舍利子便安放在小铁塔内。接着是寺院住持的耻辱柱，那是漂亮的小圆塔，塔顶有个铅皮的塔锥。
• 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。
• As the sacred edifice was too much thronged to admit another auditor, she took up her position close beside the scaffold of the pillory.
  由于神圣的大厦中挤得人山人海，再也无法容纳新的听讲人，她只好在紧靠刑台的地方占了个位置。
• He wants a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, requires a Little sense of victory, a roll of the drums, to call his powers into full exercise.
  他需要谬论供他批驳，需要错误让他嘲笑，更需要一点胜利的气氛，一阵鼓声，以便最大限度发挥他的本事。
• At a time when there is international concern about the number and quality of science graduates, we cannot afford to pillory schools that are getting results, irrespective of sector.
  当国际社会对理工科毕业生的数量和质量表示关注的时候，我们不能总是当众侮辱所得到的结果。
• Criticising all with hardly more reverence than the Indian would feel for the clerical band, the judicial robe, the pillory, the gallows, the fireside, or the church.
  她几乎和印第安人一样，以不屑的态度批评牧师的丝带，法官的黑袍，颈手枷，绞刑架，家庭或教会。
• 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。