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

• On, no need to decry your industry!
  得了，您很勤快，不必谦虚了！
• Thus I do not mean to decry a fashion, but to underscore the motive behind the contemporary taste for the extreme in art and thought.
  因而，我在这里并不是想批驳一种流行的观念，而是意欲从当代的艺术和思潮中揭示出隐藏于极端趣味背后的内部动因。
• 'You seem to be a genuine cosmopolite,'I said admiringly.'But it also seems that you would decry patriotism.'
  您真是个真正的世界公民，我羡慕得说，但是这也让您显得有点毁谤了爱国主义。
• Both Robert Lucas, a Nobel Prize winner from the University of Chicago, and Robert Barro of Harvard debunk the power of the multiplier effect, and decry the burden borrowing imposes on future growth.
  诺贝尔奖获得者、芝加哥大学的罗伯特•卢卡斯和哈佛大学（Harvard）的罗伯特•巴若均对乘数效应的有效性进行了批判，并强烈谴责借贷对未来增长造成的负担。
• 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？
• "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。
• It would be a complete mistake to decry love of power altogether as a motive.
  对权欲作为一个动机全盘否定是完全错误的。
• Why decry the wealth gap?
  贫富差距，为什么要谴责它？
• People decried the campaign as a waste of money.
  人们谴责这一活动是浪费金钱。
• 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；