pilloried

英 [ˈpɪlərid]

美 [ˈpɪlərid]

v.  公开批评; 抨击
pillory的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使受公众（尤指记者）批评；使受羞辱
  If someoneis pilloried, a lot of people, especially journalists, criticize them and make them look stupid.
  1. A man has been forced to resign as a result of being pilloried by some of the press.
     一人因为受到一些媒体的抨击已被迫辞职。
• 颈手枷（欧洲旧时用以将罪犯示众的刑具）
  Apilloryis a wooden frame with holes for the head and hands. In Europe in former times criminals were sometimes locked in a pillory as a form of punishment.

双语例句

• The education secretary was pilloried in the press for his ridiculous decision.
  教育部长因其荒唐的决定，而在报刊上受到吐嘈。
• On the one occasion that Mr Obama suggested otherwise – we can absorb another terrorist attack, he said in 2010 – he was pilloried for sounding fatalistic.
  有一次奥巴马提出了不同的说法&2010年他曾说我们能够承受另一场恐怖主义袭击，结果人们嘲笑他听上去有些宿命论的意味。
• At a recent hearing, UK members of Parliament pilloried companies for using tax havens, for "manipulating" their accounts to cut their tax bills and for engaging in "immoral" activity.
  在英国议会最近举行的一个听证会上，议员们抨击企业利用避税天堂、为降低纳税额而“操纵”账目以及从事“不道德”行为。
• Until now, however, Facebook's search function had been pilloried as inadequate.
  不过，迄今为止，Facebook搜索功能的不足一直深受诟病。
• The economic edifice market capitalism that has fostered this expansion is now being pilloried for the pause and partial retrenchment.
  推动上述扩张的经济体系市场资本主义现在已被套上了枷锁，它将出现短暂的停歇或部分的删减。
• He is pilloried in the newspaper and his resignation demand.
  各报公开辱骂他，并要求他辞职。
• Nevertheless, the websites pilloried were caught by surprise yesterday.
  尽管如此，昨日受批的网站还是表示意外。
• Her instinct to seek a peaceful solution saw her pilloried in Kiev, London and Washington as a Moscow sympathiser.
  她本能地寻求和平解决方案，这使她在乌克兰、英国和美国被抨击为同情俄罗斯的人。
• The bank executives pilloried by the UK's Treasury select committee of MPs were all exceptional people.
  受到英国财政部特别委员会的议员们嘲笑的银行高管都是优秀的人才。
• A man has been forced to resign as a result of being pilloried by some of the press.
  一人因为受到一些媒体的抨击已被迫辞职。