ticking off

英 [ˌtɪkɪŋ ˈɒf]

美 [ˌtɪkɪŋ ˈɔːf]

n.  斥责; 责骂; 申斥

牛津词典

noun

• 斥责；责骂；申斥
  the act of telling sb that they have done sth to make you angry

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 斥责;责骂
  If you give someone aticking off, you speak angrily to them because they have done something wrong.
  1. They got a ticking off from the police.
     他们被警察训斥了一通。

双语例句

• A wolf is like a ticking bomb, it can go off at any moment, he warned.
  他警告说：狼就像是一颗定时炸弹，随时可能爆炸。
• There would be many, Cui told me, ticking off trade, energy, environment, and people-to-people exchanges, among others.
  崔告诉我，会晤将会达成许多实质成果，比如贸易、能源、环境，以及人员交流，等等。
• There are even dedicated websites that assist people in ticking items off the list.
  甚至还有专门的网站，帮助人们把必做名单上的项目一一勾掉。
• I gave her a real ticking off yesterday.
  昨天我着实责骂了她一顿。
• Then Lally confessed and got a ticking off.
  于是拉莱承认了，挨了一顿训斥。
• But when an enterprising scientist placed a fiddler crab in darkness, he was amazed to find that the color of the crab's shell kept ticking off the time with the same accuracy.
  但是，当一个勇于探索的科学家把招潮蟹放在黑暗中，他惊讶的发现蟹壳的颜色依然准确的按时间转变。
• I hope that once the Secretariat is re-established, the members of the Central Committee and the State Council will set an example by solving problems collectively and stop the practice of just ticking off documents in their separate offices.
  我希望，从重新建立书记处开始，中央和国务院要带头搞集体办公制度，不要再光画圈圈了。
• Knowing the length of the solar arc at various ages, you can simply go through the list from beginning to end, ticking off each planetary pair at the ages when it becomes due.
  知道了不同岁数太阳弧的长度，你就可以通过从头到尾查阅表单，然后勾出每一对行星发挥能量时所对应的年纪。
• A woman will say," Thanks A Lot "when she is really ticking off at you.
  当一位女士真是在责怪你时，她会说：“多谢”。
• I just think it's rude and it's ticking me off
  我就是觉得这样太粗鲁，叫我很生气。