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

• Not only will I tell him off, but I'm going to give him his walking papers.
  我不仅要斥责他，而且我还要解雇他。
• He'll tell you to get off.
  那他会让你下车的。
• 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。
• Won't you tell your dad get off my back?
  你能让你爸爸别对我不依不饶么？
• 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。
• At the end of which they tell you to piss off?
  然后他们给你说，你滚吧？
• The man says: You go up there and tell him off.
  男士回应说：你快上去斥责他。
• All right, look. I'm gonna call her and tell her to back off.
  那好吧，我会给她打电话叫她别来烦你。
• I can't tell you the answer off the topof my head.
  我不经考虑无法告诉你答案。
• 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。