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You can condemn, or openly criticize, someone who is behaving inappropriately. If you are an animal rights activist, you would probably condemn someone for wearing fur.
Condemn originally comes, through Old French, from the Latin word condemnāre, “to sentence, condemn.” You may see politicians condemn each other in political ads during a campaign in hopes of improving their chances of winning an election. You also might hear of a convict being “condemned to death.” In this sense of the word, to condemn still carries on its Latin meaning of “to sentence.”
实用短语
单词用法
condemn主要指最后的决定性的评价,所以常可用于表示“判罪”“处刑”,有时condemn也可指随意地、令人不快地评价。
condemn作“谴责”“责备”解时接名词或代词作宾语,宾语后常接介词for表示原因,不能接that引导的从句;作“判罪”解时,宾语后可跟动词不定式,也常跟介词to表示宣判的结果,接介词for表示判罪的原因;作“宣布…不能使用/不适用”解时,可接名词或代词作宾语,还可接以as短语充当补足语的复合宾语。condemn可用于被动结构。
blame:普通用词,语气较弱,仅是一般的责难、归咎于,不含用语言责骂之意。
accuse:语气比blame强,本义为归罪,可用作指非难或谴责之义。
condemn:正式用词,表示谴责,有较强的司法意味,侧重从道义或原则上的谴责。
scold:普通用词,多指上级对下级、长辈对后辈或雇主对雇员的态度粗暴、言词激烈的数落。
denounce与condemn同义,但着重公开性。
reproach:侧重指因他人粗心、自私等引起不满而去指责、找岔。
rebuke:多指上级对下级进行的公开、强烈、严正而不宽容的责备。隐含一定权威的意味。
词根词缀
词根: demn
=harm,表示”伤害”
n.
condemnation 谴责,定罪condemn谴责+ation表名词→n.谴责,定罪
indemnification 保护, 保障, 补偿, 补偿物indemnify[v.赔偿,偿付]+ication表名词→indemnification保护
indemnity 赔偿,赔款,补偿金in不+demn伤害+ity表名词→不受损害→赔偿
v.
condemn 谴责,指责;判刑,宣告有罪con共同+demn伤害→共同伤害→谴责
indemnify 赔偿,偿付in不+demn伤害+ify表动词→不受损害→赔偿
同义词辨析
这些动词均含有”责备,非难”之意。
同义词
反义词
同根词
词根:condemn
adj.condemnatory处罚的;非难的;定罪的
condemnable该受责备的,应受谴责的;该罚的;应定罪的,该定罪的
n.condemnation谴责;定罪;非难的理由;征用
condemning谴责;处刑
v.condemning谴责(condemn的现在分词)