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censorious

C 开头单词

音标发音

  • 英式音标 [senˈsɔː.ri.əs]
  • 美式音标 [sɛnˈsɔriəs, -ˈsor-]
  • 国际音标 [sen'sɔ:riəs]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • adj. 挑剔的；受批判的（名词censoriousness，副词censoriously）

词根记忆

  • cens(评价) + orious→爱评价他人的→挑剔的
  • 来自censor(vt.检查，审查)

同根派生

     

英汉例句

    双语例句

  • Oh, dear, what can we say about this monarch that will not sound too censorious?
    哦，天啊，关于这个国王我们应该说什么才能听起来不是那么吹毛求疵呢？
  • But red Toryism may be too morally censorious , and too hostile to big business, to fit the bill.
    但是红色保守主义也是行不通的，因为它对国家大财团太敌对，在道德上又对其太吹毛求疵。
  • But the world is so censorious no character escapes.
    但世人就是这么爱搬弄是非，无人幸免。

    • 权威例句

  • The Chinese and their censorious government, the Communist Party, want to be rich and strong.
    FORBES: Getting to Yes
  • Not that Mr Gay defends the contemporary notion of Victorian values: censorious prudery or embarrassed euphemisms.
    ECONOMIST: Victorian values revisited
  • The backlash was censorious, strict in its views on the family and personal morality, and predominantly suburban.
    ECONOMIST: Lexington

词组短语

    短语

  • censorious s 挑剔的
  • censorious a 受批判的
  • Do not be censorious 不要吹毛求疵
  • Be not censorious 不要吹毛求疵
  • a censorious or denunciatory nature 挑剔或谴责性质

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • often criticizing other people

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you describe someone as censorious, you do not like the way they strongly disapprove of and criticize someone else's behaviour.