tell off

英 [tel ɒf]

美 [tel ɔːf]

斥责; 训斥; 训诫

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 斥责;训斥;训诫
  If youtellsomeoneoff, you speak to them angrily or seriously because they have done something wrong.
  1. He never listened to us when we told him off...
     我们教训他时，他从来不听。
  2. I'm always being told off for being so awkward...
     我笨手笨脚的，总挨训。
  3. Dutch police told off two of the gang, aged 10 and 11.
     荷兰警方对一帮小混混中的两个人进行了训诫，他们一个 10 岁，另一个 11 岁。

英英释义

verb

• reprimand
  1. She told the misbehaving student off
  Synonym:brush down

双语例句

• Dutch police told off two of the gang, aged 10 and 11.
  荷兰警方对一帮小混混中的两个人进行了训诫，他们一个10岁，另一个11岁。
• Didn't I tell you to turn off the TV if you're not watching it?
  我没告诉你如果不看电视的话就关掉吗？
• A: If Maggie's late, I'm going to tell her off.
  如果玛姬迟到的话，我要骂骂她。
• The farmers used a special system of counting to tell off their sheep.
  农民们使用一种特殊的计数方法清点羊的头数。
• She had the audacity to tell him off.
  她有胆量叫他走开。
• There are people who tell me off, he said in a phone interview. They say my writing is too vulgar.
  有人谴责我，他在接受电话采访时说，他们说我写的写作太粗俗。
• I'm always being told off for being so awkward
  我笨手笨脚的，总挨训。
• Won't you tell your dad get off my back?
  你能让你爸爸别对我不依不饶么？
• Tomorrow I'll go back to tell him off: I'll make his ears burn for a week!
  明天，我得去骂他，我得让他一个礼拜都感到害臊。
• Not only will I tell him off, but I'm going to give him his walking papers.
  我不仅要斥责他，而且我还要解雇他。