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

• 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。
• I am also bossy and happy to tell off teenage boys in the street when they are misbehaving.
  我还会专横而高兴地在街上斥责那些行为不端的十几岁男孩。
• She had the audacity to tell him off.
  她有胆量叫他走开。
• At worst, all she can do is tell you off for being late.
  充其量，她能做的不过是责备你迟到了而已。
• 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。
• 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。
• I'd go to the kitchen to get breakfast, and he'd be waiting to tell me off.
  我去厨房做早餐，他会等在那数落我。
• All right, look. I'm gonna call her and tell her to back off.
  那好吧，我会给她打电话叫她别来烦你。
• He never listened to us when we told him off
  我们教训他时，他从来不听。
• My boyfriend likes to argue. I finally have to tell him off and keep him away from me for days.
  我的男朋友真喜欢辩论。最后我只好叫他住嘴，几天内别来找我。