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

• Even if they tell you off, it will be with basic good will.
  即使他们责备你，那也是带着基本的善意。
• 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。
• And you have the balls to tell me it's off?
  你却告诉我我们结束了？
• I'm always being told off for being so awkward
  我笨手笨脚的，总挨训。
• I can't tell you the answer off the topof my head.
  我不经考虑无法告诉你答案。
• 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。
• She had the audacity to tell him off.
  她有胆量叫他走开。
• It was perhaps rude of him to tell you to push off when you hadn't yet finished talking.
  你还没有谈完，他就叫你走，那可以说是很不礼貌的。
• 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。
• 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。