Word of the Day：September 23, 2021

chastise

批评；指责；责备；体罚

verb chass-TYZE

What It Means

Chastise means "to criticize (someone) harshly for doing something wrong."

Chastise 的意思是“严厉批评某人做错事”。

Examples

"I used to chastise people for not working as efficiently as the WWE. … I was judgmental and I was apprehensive and I wanted to be back in the ring because I loved that immediate gratification." — John Cena, quoted in USA Today, 5 Aug. 2021

“我曾经因为人们没有 WWE 那样高效地工作而责指责他们。我很苛刻，也很焦虑，也很想回到擂台上，因为我喜欢那种即刻的满足。”

The boss eventually had to chastise certain employees for being consistently late.

老板最终不得不批评那些经常迟到的员工。

Did You Know?

There are many words to express the infliction of a penalty in return for wrongdoing—for example, chastise, castigate, chasten, correct, discipline, and punish. Of these, chastise, chasten, and castigate share similar origins as well as similar meanings. Chastise developed as an altered form of chasten, which comes from the Anglo-French chastier, which has its roots in the Latin verb castigare, which also gave English the word castigate.

有很多词可以表达对错误行为的责罚——例如，chastise『惩罚』、castigate『谴责』、chasten『惩戒』、correct『纠正』、discipline『纪律』和 punish『惩罚』。 其中 chastise、chasten 和 castigate 有着相同的起源及相似的含义。 Chastise是 chasten的一种变体 ，它来自 Anglo-French 的 chastier，其根源于拉丁语动词 castigare，它也给予了castigare 这个英语单词 。

Quiz

Fill in the blanks to complete an antonym of chastise: p _ _ _ _ n.

pardon『原谅；赦免；宽恕』