tell off

英 [tel ɒf]

美 [tel ɔːf]

斥责; 训斥; 训诫

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 斥责;训斥;训诫
  If youtellsomeoneoff, you speak to them angrily or seriously because they have done something wrong.
  1. He never listened to us when we told him off...
     我们教训他时，他从来不听。
  2. I'm always being told off for being so awkward...
     我笨手笨脚的，总挨训。
  3. Dutch police told off two of the gang, aged 10 and 11.
     荷兰警方对一帮小混混中的两个人进行了训诫，他们一个 10 岁，另一个 11 岁。

英英释义

verb

• reprimand
  1. She told the misbehaving student off
  Synonym:brush down

双语例句

• At the end of which they tell you to piss off?
  然后他们给你说，你滚吧？
• Even if they tell you off, it will be with basic good will.
  即使他们责备你，那也是带着基本的善意。
• I am also bossy and happy to tell off teenage boys in the street when they are misbehaving.
  我还会专横而高兴地在街上斥责那些行为不端的十几岁男孩。
• I can't tell you the answer off the topof my head.
  我不经考虑无法告诉你答案。
• The farmers used a special system of counting to tell off their sheep.
  农民们使用一种特殊的计数方法清点羊的头数。
• The old man like to tell off color joke.
  这老头爱开低级庸俗的玩笑。
• Tomorrow I'll go back to tell him off: I'll make his ears burn for a week!
  明天，我得去骂他，我得让他一个礼拜都感到害臊。
• They might even be willing to pretend to tell you off so that you don't lose face with your friends.
  他们也许会假装推脱离开，这样你也不失面子。
• I'm always being told off for being so awkward
  我笨手笨脚的，总挨训。
• A: If Maggie's late, I'm going to tell her off.
  如果玛姬迟到的话，我要骂骂她。