crucify

英 ['kruːsɪfaɪ] 美 ['kruːsɪfaɪ]

• vt. 钉在十字架上处死；迫害；折磨

英英释义

Verb:

1. kill by nailing onto a cross;

   "Jesus Christ was crucified"
   

2. treat cruelly;

   "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
   

3. hold within limits and control;

   "subdue one's appetites"
   "mortify the flesh"
   

4. criticize harshly or violently;

   "The press savaged the new President"
   "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
   

例句

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. Christ was crucified on a crucifix.
   基督被钉死在十字架上。
2. The minister was crucified by the press for his handling of the affair.
   部长对此事的处理方法受到新闻界的严厉批评。
3. For even as love crowns you so shall she crucify you.
   爱会给你戴上桂冠，也会折磨你。

经典引文

• Somebody has to be held up before the stockholders and crucified so that they can say: 'See, it was all his fault. He was to blame!'

  出自： H. Robbins

• He would be severely beaten up, then subjected to some crucifying punishment and, if that did not teach him, very probably executed.

  出自：Listener

近反义词

【近义词】

• execute 执行
• torment 苦痛
• punish 惩罚
• torture 拷问
• kill 杀死
• hang 悬挂
• victimize 使牺牲
• mistreat 虐待
• oppress 使烦恼
• persecute 迫害
• inflict 使遭受
• rag 破布
• frustrate 挫败
• blast 爆炸
• savage 野性的
• subdue 使服从
• bedevil 使痛苦
• mortify 使 ... 受辱
• pillory 颈手枷
• dun 讨债