ticking off

英 [ˌtɪkɪŋ ˈɒf]

美 [ˌtɪkɪŋ ˈɔːf]

n.  斥责; 责骂; 申斥

牛津词典

noun

• 斥责；责骂；申斥
  the act of telling sb that they have done sth to make you angry

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 斥责;责骂
  If you give someone aticking off, you speak angrily to them because they have done something wrong.
  1. They got a ticking off from the police.
     他们被警察训斥了一通。

双语例句

• Knowing the length of the solar arc at various ages, you can simply go through the list from beginning to end, ticking off each planetary pair at the ages when it becomes due.
  知道了不同岁数太阳弧的长度，你就可以通过从头到尾查阅表单，然后勾出每一对行星发挥能量时所对应的年纪。
• Seven more days, he thought, lightly ticking off the second square, which was filled with notes on his work for the day.
  还有七天，他计算着，把写满了工作内容的第二个格轻轻地勾掉。
• Thousands of dangerous killers, schooled in the methods of murder, often supported by outlaw regimes, are now spread throughout the world like ticking time bombs, set to go off without warning.
  数以千计的被训练来杀人的危险杀手，通常都有非法政权在撑腰，现在正散布在全世界，在不动声色地引爆一个又一个的定时炸弹。
• There are even dedicated websites that assist people in ticking items off the list.
  甚至还有专门的网站，帮助人们把必做名单上的项目一一勾掉。
• I have nothing wrong with the "let them know you're there in the first few minutes" approach, but injuring an opponent surely warrants more punishment than a light ticking off?
  我觉得“让他们从一开始就领教你的厉害”没什么不对。但把人弄伤和随便踢一脚应该不一样吧？
• But when an enterprising scientist placed a fiddler crab in darkness, he was amazed to find that the color of the crab's shell kept ticking off the time with the same accuracy.
  但是，当一个勇于探索的科学家把招潮蟹放在黑暗中，他惊讶的发现蟹壳的颜色依然准确的按时间转变。
• I gave her a real ticking off yesterday.
  昨天我着实责骂了她一顿。
• Then Lally confessed and got a ticking off.
  于是拉莱承认了，挨了一顿训斥。
• A wolf is like a ticking bomb, it can go off at any moment, he warned.
  他警告说：狼就像是一颗定时炸弹，随时可能爆炸。
• They got a ticking off from the police.
  他们被警察训斥了一通。