excoriate

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The psychologist Barry Schwartz used the kindergarten experiment to excoriate an experimental New York schools programme which paid older children to show up and work hard.
心理學(xué)家巴里?施瓦茲(Barry Schwartz)利用一個(gè)在幼兒園進(jìn)行的實(shí)驗(yàn)，批判紐約多家學(xué)校通過付錢給年齡較大的兒童讓他們到校認(rèn)真學(xué)習(xí)的試驗(yàn)性做法。
Separately, much of the African writing culture that remains on the continent, including Kwani?, is propped up with cash from the Western donors that African writers purport to excoriate.
此外，留下來植根于非洲大陸的創(chuàng)作文化之大部，包括《寬尼文學(xué)期刊》在內(nèi)，都靠西方捐款者的金錢扶持，而這些金援者卻正是非洲作家們號稱要斥責(zé)的人。
On April 21st the Energy and Commerce Committee of the House of Representatives will excoriate the latest bunch of hapless bosses: those who had the temerity to apply accounting standard ASC 740.
4月21日，眾議院能源商務(wù)委員會又要叱罵最新一批不幸的老總們了：因?yàn)樗麄兡懜沂褂肁SC 740會計(jì)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。

"A sense that a step is made to release prisoners, and the government is trying to build some bridges in certain areas, but at the same time, the revolutionary side is given its moment in which Fidel Castro is able to excoriate the United States and to continue to lay out the revolutionary credentials, or Cuba's role as a leader of the Third World."

He was a leading adornment of the establishment he liked to excoriate.
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Too many Republicans are said to be reluctant to criticize a leader of their own party for engaging in behavior they rightly would excoriate any Democrat for perpetrating.
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On the other hand, it is permissible to excoriate Myanmar or Cambodia on humanitarian grounds, since neither country poses the kind of threat to the international system that realists care about.
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To excoriate a person or organization means to criticize them severely, usually in public.