- 1斥責、訓斥、譴責（上對下、公開而嚴厲的）
To rebuke someone is to tell them off, seriously and often publicly, for something they did wrong. It is not just being — there is a sense of a higher position speaking down to a lower one: a judge rebukes a lawyer, a boss rebukes a manager, a court rebukes the government, a teacher rebukes a student. It also works as a noun: 'a sharp rebuke', 'his words were a rebuke to everyone in the room'.
The word is formal, and quite strong. In everyday speech people say 'told him off', 'gave her a talking-to', 'chewed him out' (American, rough), or just 'criticised'. 'Rebuke' belongs to news writing, formal reports, and — — the Bible and older literature, which is part of why it can sound weighty and a bit old-fashioned in a way that suits serious moments.
One thing worth noticing: a rebuke can be silent, or , in careful writing. 'Her simple honesty was a rebuke to all of them' — nobody spoke, but everyone felt criticised. That stretched use is common in good writing and is worth recognising when you meet it.
組成re- (back) + an old French word for striking or chopping at wood, which itself goes back to a word for a bush or a grove of trees. So the oldest picture inside 'rebuke' is beating someone back — the way you would beat back branches. The scolding sense grew out of that picture of pushing someone away with blows.
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。
rebukenoun/ɹiˈbjuːk/
- 1
A harsh criticism.
- There was the sternness of an old-fashioned Tour patron in his rebuke to the young Frenchman Pierre Rolland, the only one to ride away from the peloton and seize the opportunity for a lone attack before being absorbed back into the bunch, where he was received with coolness.
- U.S. Vice President JD Vance met Saturday with the Vatican's No. 2 official, following a remarkable papal rebuke of the Trump administration’s crackdown on migrants and Vance’s theological justification of it.
rebukeverb/ɹiˈbjuːk/
- 1
To criticise harshly; to reprove.
- O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
- When Morrison mulls the pluses and minuses associated with rebuking Kelly for undermining the government’s public health messaging, the prime minister faces a genuine substantive dilemma, and that goes to the risks of amplification.
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。