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

• People decried the campaign as a waste of money.
  人们谴责这一活动是浪费金钱。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• On, no need to decry your industry!
  得了，您很勤快，不必谦虚了！
• 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。
• A generation after many prominent feminists encouraged women to have it all, we continue to decry the absence of women in politics, business and other positions of power.
  身处多位著名女权主义者鼓励妇女拥有一切的一代我们，仍然因在政界，商界和其他业界鲜见女性掌权而发起责难。
• 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？
• On the left, people who struggle the hardest for social change would decry changes in other countries that they view as a result of globalization.
  一方面，竭尽全力推进社会改革的人可能会谴责其他国家中他们认为由全球化引起的变革。