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小词详解 | denounce

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denounce 英 [dɪˈnaʊns] 美 [dɪˈnaʊns]

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外刊例句


  • President Donald Trump took to Twitter to denounce Mr Draghi for “unfair” currency manipulation.
    特朗普在推特上谴责德拉吉“不公平”操纵汇率。
    ——《经济学人》

  • As immigration activists gathered in Lower Manhattan on Friday afternoon, chanting in Spanish to denounce the Supreme Court deadlock that effectively shut down President Obama’s program of deportation relief, a group of eight advocates stood quietly in the back.
    周五下午,移民活动人士聚集在曼哈顿下城,用西班牙语高喊口号,谴责最高法院的僵持局面,与此同时,一个由八名倡导人士组成的团体安静地站在后面。最高法院此次票数持平的结果,实际上禁止了奥巴马总统的驱逐出境救助项目。
    ——《纽约时报》


基本释义


[verb] publicly declare to be wrong or evil
[动词] 公开宣称是错的或邪恶的



深入解读

Denounce 是一个与小站之前推送过的 renounce 不仅十分形似而且容易混淆的单词。该词源自拉丁语 denuntiare (宣布、宣告;谴责、威胁;指挥、命令),14世纪初经古法语进入英语后原指“宣布,以正式的方式使人知道”,不过这个含义现在已不再流行。

发展到今天, denounce 主要用来表示“谴责、指责、痛斥”,多指因强烈地感到对方是错的或邪恶的而进行公开严厉的批判指责,比如:

  • 新上任的政府的经济政策受到了各方面的谴责。与此同时,现行货币政策也抑制了经济的发展。
    The newly 
    inaugurated government's economic policy has been denounced on all sides. Meanwhile, the current monetary policy is also strangling the economy.
  • 这项工程被斥责为挥霍公款,令人愤慨。
    The
    project was denounced as a scandalous waste of public money.

另外,自15世纪末期起, denounce 还被用来表示“告发、检举”,多指将某人的非法政治活动告诉警察或执政当局,比如:

  • 他以前的同事们告发他是间谍。我不知道是不是真的,但他有点让人捉摸不透,这一点是肯定的。
    His former colleagues have denounced him as a spy. I wonder whether it is true, but he is something of an
    enigma, that's for sure.

影视用例

But if you tell Granny I said so, I'll denounce you as a liar.
但你要是敢把我的话告诉奶奶,我就说你撒谎。
出自2010年首播的英国时代迷你剧《唐顿庄园》(Downton Abbey)。

同近义词

  • condemn: express complete disapproval of, typically in public; censure
  • censure: express severe disapproval of (someone or something), especially in a formal statement
  • decry: publicly denounce

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