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To chide someone is to tell them you do not approve of what they have done or said. It is a telling-off, but often a milder one than shouting. A parent might chide a child for being late. A friend might chide you, half-smiling, for forgetting a birthday. The word feels a little old and a little like a book; many people today would just say tell off or . You can also chide yourself, quietly, when you think “I should not have done that.” It is about showing , not about a long angry fight.
責備、數落（語氣通常比痛罵輕，也比較書面）
組成From Middle English chiden, from Old English cīdan, “to rebuke, blame, or quarrel.” It is related to German kiden (“to sound”) and Old High German kīdal (“wedge”), but those are not English family words.
原始詞典資料3 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。
chideverb/ t͡ʃaɪd/
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literaryTo admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
- Valentine: Well, you’ll still be too forward. Speed: And yet I was last chidden for being too slow.
- Whiles you chid me, I did love; How then might your prayers move!
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obsoleteTo utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
- And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
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obsoleteTo make a clamorous noise; to chafe.
- Where is he living, clipp’d in with the sea That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales, Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me?
- […] though perils did Abound, as thick as thought could make ’em, and Appear in forms more horrid,—yet my duty, As doth a rock against the chiding flood, Should the approach of this wild river break, And stand unshaken yours.
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。