词汇释义

berate  TEM8  IELTS  GRE

UK  /bɪˈreɪt/ US  /bɪˈreɪt/

verb, If you berate someone, you speak to them angrily about something they have done wrong.怒斥，训斥

外刊例句

1. On the other end of the first phone call he received Monday who was a man who berated him for the stories, using a racial slur.(Seattle Times)

2. In the past four years, Mr. Trump used his bully pulpit to praise and berate companies, escalate a trade war with China and signal the economy’s strengths ahead of official announcements.(New York Times)

3. Before the governor’s order, Ms. Ransier asked her staff to wear masks, but a few customers berated her employees — some of whom are in high school — over the decision.(New York Times)

4. Now, it’s an ongoing morality play about Truth, in which reporters become famous as they confront Mr. Trump for lying, and the president delights his base by berating them.(New York Times)

5. She was heartened that over a hundred people donated, but others berated her for not saving or seeking a job at a grocery store during the pandemic.(Washington Post)

6. On Saturday, Trump said he hadn’t heard of any glitches in a small business lending program, and berated a reporter who asked.(Reuters)

7. Bank employees were berated for not making bloated sales quotas, which ultimately resulted in many employees gaming Wells Fargo’s sales system in order to meet these artificial sales goals.(Seattle Times)

8. Then, with dozens of people watching and Ms. Crowe Taylor holding her empty plate, he tore into her, berating her about her weight and telling her to lay off the pasta and bread.(New York Times)

9. And senior executives at Boeing exacerbated the problems, he added, by berating employees about delays and urging them to work faster.(New York Times)

10. “Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve Fail Again,” Trump wrote on Twitter, berating the Fed chair he handpicked.(Washington Post)

11. President Donald Trump tweeted with envy on Wednesday about the ultra-low, even negative interest rates in other parts of the world, berating what he called the “boneheads” at the Federal Reserve for not following suit.(Reuters)

12. The audio clip heard the actor berate and threaten to beat up someone who was working on the set after they changed a lighting rig at the wrong moment, distracting the actor from his scene.(Fox News)

词汇搭配

berate sb for sth

词汇来源

"to scold vehemently," 1540s, from be- "thoroughly" + Middle English rate "to scold" (late 14c.), from Old French reter "accuse, blame," from Latin reputare "reflect upon, reckon, count over," from re- "repeatedly" (see re-) + putare "to judge, suppose, believe, suspect," originally "to clean, trim, prune" (from PIE root *pau- (2) "to cut, strike, stamp"). "Obsolete except in U.S." [OED 1st ed.], but it seems to have revived in Britain 20c. Related: Berated; berating.

近义词

criticize, blame, condemn, rebuke, reproach, scold, upbraid, castigate

反义词

approve, acclaim, extol, commend, compliment, salute, exalt, endorse(indorse)

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