decry

英 [dɪˈkraɪ]

美 [dɪˈkraɪ]

v.  (公开)谴责; (强烈)批评

过去式：decried　过去分词：decried　现在分词：decrying　第三人称单数：decries　

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BNC.19796 / COCA.11621

牛津词典

verb

• （公开）谴责；（强烈）批评
  to strongly criticize sb/sth, especially publicly
  1. The measures were decried as useless.
     这些措施受到指责，说是不起作用。

柯林斯词典

• VERB （强烈）谴责，抨击，反对
  If someonedecriesan idea or action, they criticize it strongly.
  1. He is impatient with those who decry the scheme...
     对于那些反对该方案的人，他表现得很不耐烦。
  2. People decried the campaign as a waste of money.
     人们谴责这一活动是浪费金钱。

英英释义

verb

• express strong disapproval of
  1. We condemn the racism in South Africa
  2. These ideas were reprobated
  Synonym:condemnreprobateobjurgateexcoriate

双语例句

• Cultural historians and moralists have tended to write from an aristocratic point of view and to decry the breakdown of standards.
  文化历史学家和道德家则倾向于从贵族的观点出发来论述，竭力反对打破一切标准。
• What we are accustomed to decry as great social evils, will, for the most part, be found to be but the outgrowth of man's own perverted life;
  我们惯常指责为社会灾害的东西，很大程度上都只不过肇始于人们自己生活的荒淫；
• A generation after many prominent feminists encouraged women to have it all, we continue to decry the absence of women in politics, business and other positions of power.
  身处多位著名女权主义者鼓励妇女拥有一切的一代我们，仍然因在政界，商界和其他业界鲜见女性掌权而发起责难。
• Thus I do not mean to decry a fashion, but to underscore the motive behind the contemporary taste for the extreme in art and thought.
  因而，我在这里并不是想批驳一种流行的观念，而是意欲从当代的艺术和思潮中揭示出隐藏于极端趣味背后的内部动因。
• Both Robert Lucas, a Nobel Prize winner from the University of Chicago, and Robert Barro of Harvard debunk the power of the multiplier effect, and decry the burden borrowing imposes on future growth.
  诺贝尔奖获得者、芝加哥大学的罗伯特•卢卡斯和哈佛大学（Harvard）的罗伯特•巴若均对乘数效应的有效性进行了批判，并强烈谴责借贷对未来增长造成的负担。
• Although it is fashionable to decry finance and its models, financiers are ahead of the game here.
  尽管目前流行贬低金融学及金融学模型，但金融学家在这方面却早有建树。
• People decried the campaign as a waste of money.
  人们谴责这一活动是浪费金钱。
• It is hardly surprising that a green lobby group should decry the practices of the logging industry.
  绿色环保团体谴责伐木公司的行为一点也不令人惊讶。
• Presenting a new currency regime to the likes of Dominique Strauss-Kahn of the International Monetary Fund, who has wasted few opportunities to decry an "undervalued" Renminbi in recent years, may stick in the craw.
  把调整人民币汇率作为礼物，送给近年来一有机会就谴责人民币“被低估”的国际货币基金组织（imf）总裁多米尼克斯特劳斯-卡恩（dominiquestrauss-kahn）之流，或许会让人感到难以接受。
• It falls neatly into the growing genre of anti-higher education tirades that decry the rising cost of education and the lack of any guarantees.
  它们与一些越来越抵制高等教育的反对人士不谋而合，那些反对派谴责高等学府一方面不断提高教育成本，一方面缺少对学生未来就业的任何保障。