- 1公開譴責、抨擊
To decry something is to say, out loud and in public, that you do not accept it — you think it is wrong, unfair, or shameful. You are not just privately unhappy. You want other people to hear that you are against it. Newspapers, politicians, and decry a new law, a violent act, or “the way things have gone.” It sounds rather formal and written. You would not usually decry a friend’s cooking; you would just say you did not like it. It is closer to publicly condemning something than to complaining. Though actually, people sometimes stretch it to mean “criticise a lot,” even when nobody is giving a grand public speech.
組成English took it around 1600 from Middle French decrier (“to put down; to make something sound worth less”), from Old French descrier (“to shout”) — modern French décrier. The de- was read as “down.” The unkind meaning was already in French by the 1200s, including announcing that a coin was worth less. It is a doublet of descry, a different English verb meaning “to catch sight of.”
同家族的字
- descrya doublet from a related French verb; descry kept the “catch sight of” meaning, not the “talk it down” meaning
原始詞典資料2 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。
decryverb/dɪˈkɹaɪ/
- 1
To denounce as harmful.
- Nothing is more uſual and more natural for thoſe, vvho pretend to diſcover any thing nevv to the vvorld in philoſophy and the ſciences, than to inſinuate the praiſes of their ovvn ſystems, by decrying all thoſe, vvhich have been advanced before them.
- All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense.
- 2
To blame for ills.
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。