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In a way that judges other people and says out loud that they are wrong. If you speak or look at someone censoriously, you are not just disagreeing — you are telling them, or showing them, that you think badly of what they did. The word carries a feeling of someone standing above you, sure they are the better person. It is a formal, written word; people say it about characters in books, about newspapers, about a strict aunt or a strict church. In real conversation a student is far more likely to hear "she talked about it really " or "he was so critical about it". Note that it often describes HOW someone speaks or looks rather than what they actually said — "she coughed censoriously" works, because the is in the sound.
帶著責備地、以批判的口吻地。注意不是單純「批評」(criticize),而是那種「我道德上比你高一等」的指責感,語氣裡有看不起。
組成censorious(愛責備的、挑剔的)+ -ly(副詞字尾)。censorious 來自 censor,古羅馬的「監察官」——負責記錄人口,也負責管人民的品行,看誰的行為不合格。那種「有權力評判你人品」的味道一直留在這個字裡。
同家族的字
- censorthe same Latin censor — the official who judged people's conduct; today, the person who cuts out parts of films or books
- censoriousthe adjective this adverb is built from
- censorshipalso from censor — the system of cutting or blocking things
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
censoriouslyadv
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In a censorious manner.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。