denounce
verb /dɪˈnaʊns/
/dɪˈnaʊns/
动词形式
| present simple I / you / we / they denounce | /dɪˈnaʊns/ /dɪˈnaʊns/ |
| he / she / it denounces | /dɪˈnaʊnsɪz/ /dɪˈnaʊnsɪz/ |
| past simple denounced | /dɪˈnaʊnst/ /dɪˈnaʊnst/ |
| past participle denounced | /dɪˈnaʊnst/ /dɪˈnaʊnst/ |
| -ing form denouncing | /dɪˈnaʊnsɪŋ/ /dɪˈnaʊnsɪŋ/ |
- to strongly criticize somebody/something that you think is wrong, illegal, etc.
谴责；指责；斥责 - denounce somebody/something She publicly denounced the government's handling of the crisis.
她公开谴责政府处理这场危机的方式。 - denounce somebody/something as something The project was denounced as a scandalous waste of public money.
这项工程被斥责为可耻的公款挥霍。
- The government was bitterly denounced for the emergency measures.
政府因紧急措施遭到了强烈谴责。 - These new regulations have been widely denounced.
这些新规遭到广泛谴责。
Collocations Dictionaryadverb- angrily
- bitterly
- roundly
- …
- for
- to
- be widely denounced
- denounce somebody/something She publicly denounced the government's handling of the crisis.
- to tell the police, the authorities, etc. about somebody’s illegal political activities
告发（某人从事非法政治活动） - denounce somebody as something They were denounced as spies.
他们被揭发是间谍。 - denounce somebody (to somebody) Many people denounced their neighbours to the secret police.
许多人向秘密警察告发自己的邻居。 - Someone in the village must have denounced them to the authorities.
一定是村里有人向当局告发了他们。
see also denunciation - denounce somebody as something They were denounced as spies.
词源Middle English (originally in the sense ‘proclaim’, also ‘proclaim someone to be wicked, a rebel, etc.’): from Old French denoncier, from Latin denuntiare ‘give official information’, based on nuntius ‘messenger’.