- 1責罵、罵；台灣爸媽也常說「唸」小孩
When you scold someone, you speak to them because they did something wrong. You are not hitting them, and you are not only explaining the rule in a calm voice. You are telling them off, with heat in your words. Parents scold children a lot — for lying, for making a mess, for being rude. Teachers scold a class that will not sit still. A boss can scold a worker, though in offices people more often say “tell off” or use a colder word like “reprimand”; scold still sounds a bit like home, or like a storybook. Though actually, it is milder than “yell” and warmer than an official warning. You usually scold a person you have some right to correct, not a stranger on the street. You scold someone (scold him, scold the children); you do not scold a thing. Long ago, “a scold” could also mean a person — often a woman — who nagged all day. Almost nobody uses that noun now. The everyday noun is a scolding.
組成The noun is from Middle English scold / skald (1100s–1200s). The verb scolden appears in the late 1300s, and most dictionaries say the verb comes from the noun. The noun is probably from Old Norse skald, “poet” — those poets sometimes wrote poems to insult people. Another view is that English scold and Norse skald are sister words, also related to German schelten, “to scold.” Scholars do not all agree, so the poet story is the usual one, not a locked fact.
原始詞典資料5 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。
scoldnoun/ˈskəʊ̯ld/
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A person who habitually scolds, in particular a troublesome and angry woman.
- A ſclaunderous tunge, a tunge of a ſkolde, Worketh more miſchiefe than can be tolde; That, if I wiſt not to be controlde, Yet ſomwhat to ſay I dare well be bolde,
- “Well, I won’t have it, and that’s enough.” She laughed, for her voice had a little been that of the professional scold.
scoldverb/ˈskəʊ̯ld/
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To rebuke angrily.
- I advise that you refrain from using that kind of language at home, lest your mother scold you.
- A week elapsed before she could see Elizabeth without scolding her —
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biologynatural-sciencesornithologyOf birds, to make harsh vocalisations in aggression.
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Of birds, to make vocalisations that resemble human scolding.
- [T]he merry songsters of the wood now filled the air with their jubilee; the nutcracker began his monotonous clattering, the chaffinches and the wrens sang high in the sky, the blackcock scolded and blustered loudly, the thrush sang his mocking songs and libellous ditties about everybody, but became occasionally a little sentimental and warbled gently and bashfully some tender stanzas.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- scald
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。