- 1抨擊、惡評（不是真的去扔磚）
A brickbat, in the sense you need here, is a sharp public criticism of something — a play, a plan, a person in the news. “hurl brickbats”; a policy “comes in for brickbats.” It often turns up in newspapers, and in the old pairing bouquets and brickbats, meaning praise and blame. Though actually it first meant a broken piece of brick, the kind you could throw. That hard, flying bit of brick became a picture for words that hit. The word now feels a little old and ; ordinary talk is more likely to say criticism or attack. You still hear the physical meaning in older writing, but this filing is the criticism.
組成brick + bat, here “a bit or piece,” especially a broken brick with one whole end. The criticism sense comes from that noun.
同家族的字
- brickthe first half: it first meant a broken piece of brick
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
brickbatnoun/ˈbɹɪkbæt/
- 1
A piece of brick, rock, etc., especially when used as a weapon (for example, thrown or placed in a sock or other receptacle and used as a club).
- [S]he sēt [sent] a brick back after him & hit him on þᵉ back, […]
- [Y]ᵉ body of King Charles the First was privately putt into the Sand about White-hall; and the coffin that was carried to Windsor and layd in K. Hen[ry] 8^(th's) vault was filled with rubbish, or brick-batts.
- 2
A piece of (sharp) criticism or a (highly) uncomplimentary remark.
- I beſeech ye friends, ere the brickbats flye, reſolve me and your ſelves, is it blasphemy, or any vvhit diſagreeing from Chriſtian meekneſſe, […] for me to anſvver a ſlovenly vvincer of a confutation, that, if he vvould needs put his foot to ſuch a ſvveaty ſervice, the odour of his Sock vvas like to be neither Musk, nor Benjamin?
- Not honoured, hardly even envied; only fools and the flunkey-species so much as envy me. I am conspicuous,—as a mark for curses and brickbats. What good is it?
brickbatverb/ˈbɹɪkbæt/
- 1
To attack (someone or something) by swinging or throwing brickbats (noun sense 1).
- We had two boys arrested, both colored, for brick-batting a colored woman in her house. They were sent to the chaingang for 12 months each.
- 2
To assail (someone or something) with (sharp) criticism.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。