scold
verb [transitive, intransitive] (formal)to speak angrily to somebody, especially a child, because they have done something wrong synonym rebuke训斥,责骂(尤指孩子) - scold somebody (for doing something)
He scolded them for arriving late. 他嫌他们迟到,训了他们一通。 - scold somebody for something
Rose scolded the child gently for her bad behaviour. 罗斯温和地批评了那个女孩子的不良行为。 - + speech
‘Don’t be such a baby!’ he scolded. “别这么孩子气!”他训斥道。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- gently
- lightly
- silently
- …
- for
Word OriginMiddle English (as a noun): probably from Old Norse skáld ‘skald’.- scold somebody (for doing something)