词汇释义
pillory TEM8 GRE
UK /ˈpɪl.ər.i/ US /ˈpɪl.ɚ.i/
1. verb, If someone is pilloried, a lot of people, especially journalists, criticize them and make them look stupid.使受公众尤指记者批评，使受羞辱
2. noun, A pillory is a wooden frame with holes for the head and hands. In Europe in former times criminals were sometimes locked in a pillory as a form of punishment.颈手枷欧洲旧时用以将罪犯示众的刑具
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外刊例句
1. “I was pilloried for suggesting that we might get below 6 percent on the unemployment rate,” Mr. Blinder, a Princeton economist, said recently.(New York Times)
2. Ms. Abramson was pilloried on Twitter by sources and other journalists this year for mistakes in her book “Merchants of Truth” and for failing to cite source material from other writers.(New York Times)
3. But despite a small chorus of Oliver criticism, Hoffman’s responses were widely pilloried, certainly on tactical grounds, as he alternately squirmed and sought to cite a history of treating women respectfully.(Washington Post)
4. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, after two years of being pilloried on social media with the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag, began welcoming more women and minorities into its ranks.(Los Angeles Times)
5. In Argentina, Elliott was pilloried in the local press as a “vulture” investor for waging a decade-long battle with the government over its defaulted debt.(New York Times)
6. The bank’s former chairman and chief executive, John Stumpf, resigned in October after lawmakers pilloried him and the bank during two Capitol Hill hearings.(Los Angeles Times)
7. The institutions may be publicly shamed and their CEOs pilloried as a sop to the masses.(Washington Post)
8. With his left-wing leadership pilloried by German conservatives, Tsipras insisted defiantly that Friday night’s agreement cancelled austerity commitments and dispensed with the “troika” – European and IMF IMF inspectors loathed by many Greeks.(Forbes)
9. “If the social media complex pillories GM for the ignition issue,” he says, “the finer points of bankruptcy law won’t matter.”(BusinessWeek)
10. Tesla almost collapsed in 2008 under the weight of delays and cost overruns, then struggled to raise a new round of venture capital while Musk was pilloried as a dilettante getting his comeuppance.(BusinessWeek)
11. Last month CCTV, the national broadcaster, pilloried the firm for its warranty-repair policies, which are not always the same in China as in other countries.(TheEconomist)
12. After years as a basket-case, pilloried as “Government Motors”, GM is back in profit, stepping up its output and creating jobs again.(TheEconomist)
词汇搭配
pillory sb for sth
词汇家族
pillories, pilloried, pillorying
词汇来源
"frame of wood erected on a post or pole with holes into which were put the head and hands of an offender who was thus exposed for public derision and abuse," mid-14c., pillorie (attested in Anglo-Latin from late 12c., in surnames from mid-13c.), from Old French pilori "pillory" (mid-12c.), which is related to Medieval Latin pilloria, but all are of uncertain origin. Perhaps a diminutive of Latin pila "pillar, stone barrier" (see pillar), but OED finds this proposed derivation "phonologically unsuitable."
近义词
castigate, excoriate, flay, gibbet, hammer, lambaste (or lambast), lash, scold, upbraid,blame, censure, condemn, criticize, denounce,berate
反义词
approve, commend, endorse (also indorse), recommend,extol (also extoll), laud, praise
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