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To reprove someone is to tell them, in a serious way, that they did something wrong. It is criticism with a teacher’s or parent’s voice — not a shout in the street. The word is rather old and formal. You find it in books, in church language, and in careful writing. Younger people almost never say it; they say tell off, , or criticize. You reprove someone for a thing they have done. The feeling is “I expected better of you,” not “I hate you.” Though actually, a short reproof can be only a look, with no speech at all.
責備、訓斥（偏書面、正式；口語較常說罵、唸）
原始詞典資料4 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。
reproveverb詞源 1/ɹɪˈpɹuːv/
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To express disapproval.
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To criticise, rebuke, or reprimand (someone), usually in a gentle and kind tone.
- Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
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To deny or reject (as a feeling, behaviour, action, etc.).
- She ached to be with Affad again – and to reprove the feeling she frowned and bit her lip.
reproveverb詞源 2/ɹiːˈpɹuːv/
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To prove again.
- As we've just learned, as long as we live in the manifest realm, a hero's journey is never over. We are constantly having to reprove ourselves.
- Often, previously-known results will be streamlined, reworded, or reproven to make them directly relevant to the results of this paper.
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。