decry

英 [dɪˈkraɪ]

美 [dɪˈkraɪ]

v.  (公开)谴责; (强烈)批评

过去式：decried　过去分词：decried　现在分词：decrying　第三人称单数：decries　

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BNC.19796 / COCA.11621

牛津词典

verb

• （公开）谴责；（强烈）批评
  to strongly criticize sb/sth, especially publicly
  1. The measures were decried as useless.
     这些措施受到指责，说是不起作用。

柯林斯词典

• VERB （强烈）谴责，抨击，反对
  If someonedecriesan idea or action, they criticize it strongly.
  1. He is impatient with those who decry the scheme...
     对于那些反对该方案的人，他表现得很不耐烦。
  2. People decried the campaign as a waste of money.
     人们谴责这一活动是浪费金钱。

英英释义

verb

• express strong disapproval of
  1. We condemn the racism in South Africa
  2. These ideas were reprobated
  Synonym:condemnreprobateobjurgateexcoriate

双语例句

• And it might take a brave energy minister to endorse a measure that many would decry as unvarnished protectionism.
  而且，恐怕只有足够勇敢的能源部长，才会批准这种会被许多人斥为明目张胆的贸易保护主义行径的措施。
• "You seem to be a genuine cosmopolite," I said admiringly." But it also seems that you would decry patriotism. "During hypnosis, it is as though the brain temporarily suspends its attempts to authenticate incoming sensory information.
  你似乎是个货真价实的世界公民，我羡慕地说。不过，你似乎也抵毁了爱国主义。在催眠时，脑似乎暂时停止判断进入的感觉讯息是否真实。
• After all, these days it is popular for pundits to decry the dumbing down of the US media in general, and television in particular.
  毕竟，如今评论人士喜欢谴责美国媒体总体水平低俗，尤其是电视。
• Cultural historians and moralists have tended to write from an aristocratic point of view and to decry the breakdown of standards.
  文化历史学家和道德家则倾向于从贵族的观点出发来论述，竭力反对打破一切标准。
• Although it is fashionable to decry finance and its models, financiers are ahead of the game here.
  尽管目前流行贬低金融学及金融学模型，但金融学家在这方面却早有建树。
• And, if so, is there anyone today who still would decry call-ahead airport pickup services?
  即便如此，现在还会有人谴责机场预约接机服务吗？
• It falls neatly into the growing genre of anti-higher education tirades that decry the rising cost of education and the lack of any guarantees.
  它们与一些越来越抵制高等教育的反对人士不谋而合，那些反对派谴责高等学府一方面不断提高教育成本，一方面缺少对学生未来就业的任何保障。
• What we are accustomed to decry as great social evils, will, for the most part, be found to be but the outgrowth of man's own perverted life;
  我们惯常指责为社会灾害的东西，很大程度上都只不过肇始于人们自己生活的荒淫；
• In an earlier statement, Ali did decry what he called the "continuous threats of Al-Shabab terrorists" to refugees and aid workers.
  在早先的一份声明中，阿里总理曾经谴责他所称的“青年党恐怖份子对难民和救援人员持续的威胁”。
• He is impatient with those who decry the scheme
  对于那些反对该方案的人，他表现得很不耐烦。