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

• The farmers used a special system of counting to tell off their sheep.
  农民们使用一种特殊的计数方法清点羊的头数。
• If you see anyone hanging aroundhere tell them to hop off.
  如果你看到有人在这儿闲荡，就叫他们走开。
• 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。
• The kid was very cute, decked out in designer gear like the rest of his family, but sometimes incredibly hard not to discipline for example, he once spat in my face and I found I could do nothing to tell him off.
  小孩子非常可爱，跟家里其他人一样，全身上下也都是名牌；但有时候却很难管教比如，有一次他朝我脸上吐口水，而我却无能为力不好责罚他。
• Didn't she tell you she was off early today?
  她没告诉你吗？她今天早下班的。
• 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。
• Patty: I think I will just tell him off. I'm going to burn my bridges, but at least I'll feel much better.
  佩蒂：我想我只会训他一顿。虽然我会把自己搞得无路可退，但至少我会好过一点。
• They might even be willing to pretend to tell you off so that you don't lose face with your friends.
  他们也许会假装推脱离开，这样你也不失面子。
• 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。
• Not only will I tell him off, but I'm going to give him his walking papers.
  我不仅要斥责他，而且我还要解雇他。