censorious

音标发音

• 英式音标 [senˈsɔː.ri.əs]
• 美式音标 [sɛnˈsɔriəs, -ˈsor-]
• 国际音标 [sen'sɔ:riəs]
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基本解释

• adj. 挑剔的；受批判的（名詞censoriousness，副詞censoriously）

词根记忆

• cens(評價) + orious→愛評價他人的→挑剔的
• 來自censor(vt.檢查，讅查)

同根派生

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英汉例句

雙語例句

• Oh, dear, what can we say about this monarch that will not sound too censorious?
  哦，天啊，關於這個國王我們應該說什麽才能聽起來不是那麽吹毛求疵呢？
• But red Toryism may be too morally censorious , and too hostile to big business, to fit the bill.
  但是紅色保守主義也是行不通的，因爲它對國家大財團太敵對，在道德上又對其太吹毛求疵。
• But the world is so censorious no character escapes.
  但世人就是這麽愛搬弄是非，無人幸免。

權威例句

• The Chinese and their censorious government, the Communist Party, want to be rich and strong.
  FORBES: Getting to Yes
• Not that Mr Gay defends the contemporary notion of Victorian values: censorious prudery or embarrassed euphemisms.
  ECONOMIST: Victorian values revisited
• The backlash was censorious, strict in its views on the family and personal morality, and predominantly suburban.
  ECONOMIST: Lexington

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词组短语

短語

• censorious s 挑剔的
• censorious a 受批判的
• Do not be censorious 不要吹毛求疵
• Be not censorious 不要吹毛求疵
• a censorious or denunciatory nature 挑剔或譴責性質

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英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• often criticizing other people

柯林斯英英字典

• If you describe someone as censorious, you do not like the way they strongly disapprove of and criticize someone else's behaviour.

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