對著一個人的長篇訓話
同樣是單向的長篇講話，但聽眾縮成一個人，內容換成他哪裡不對——形式沒變，感覺完全不同。
telling-off · noun · B1
A long, serious talk in which someone tells you what you did wrong or warns you about something, and which feels longer than you think it needs to be.
訓話；說教
核心畫面
Picture one person talking at length while everyone else listens — no back-and-forth, and it lasts as long as the speaker decides. In a hall that arrangement is teaching. Turn it on one person and fill it with what they did wrong, and the same arrangement becomes a telling-off — which is why being lectured feels like being made to sit still.
可以想成：一個人講很久，其他人聽——沒有來回，而且要講多久由講的人決定。這個安排放在講堂裡，就是授課；把它對準一個人…更多收起
可以想成：一個人講很久，其他人聽——沒有來回，而且要講多久由講的人決定。這個安排放在講堂裡，就是授課；把它對準一個人，內容換成他做錯了什麼，同樣的安排就變成訓話。這也是為什麼被 lecture 的時候，那種「只能坐著聽完」的感覺特別明顯。From the picture
Also in this word
academic talk · noun · B1
A long talk about one subject, given to a group of people, especially to students at a college or university.
講座；課堂授課
give a lecture · verb · B1
To give a long talk about a subject to a group of people, especially to students at a college or university.
講課；授課
原始詞典資料6 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。
lecturenoun/ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə/
- 1
A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
- During class today the professor delivered an interesting lecture.
- The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
- 2
A class that primarily consists of a (weekly or other regularly held) lecture (as in sense 1), usually at college or university.
- We will not have lecture tomorrow.
- Lecture notes are online.
- 3
A berating or scolding, especially if lengthy, formal or given in a stern or angry manner.
- I really don't want you to give me a lecture about my bad eating habits.
- 4
obsoleteThe act of reading.
- the lecture of Holy Scripture
lectureverb/ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə/
- 1
To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.
- The professor lectured to two classes this morning.
- 2
To preach, to berate, to scold.
- Emily's father lectured her about the importance of being home before midnight.
- The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
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。