Scold

(noun.) someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.

编辑:帕梅拉

• Bessie, you must promise not to scold me any more till I go. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Don't scold me, there's a dear good man. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Fanny was ready and waiting, and Mrs. Norris was beginning to scold her for not being gone, and still no horse was announced, no Edmund appeared. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Well, said Miss Crawford, and do you not scold us for our imprudence? 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• It's dreadful, but I can't scold him. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Attempting once to scold her in public, Rebecca hit upon the before-mentioned plan of answering her in French, which quite routed the old woman. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I shall begin to assert the privileges of a mother-in-law, if you go on like that, and scold you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Perhaps I might have scolded, said Edmund, if either of you had been sitting down alone; but while you do wrong together, I can overlook a great deal. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Her mother only scolded her for being nonsensical. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Hannah scolded, Meg cried, and Jo was at her wits' end, till she decided to take things into her own hands. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• We were all scolded that day for not coming down to tea when called. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Jo laughed, Meg scolded, Beth implored, and Amy wailed because she couldn't remember how much nine times twelve was. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• And I must say, I think she was used very hardly; for your sister scolded like any fury, and soon drove her into a fainting fit. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• If he had scolded her, or even shaken her, it would not have broken her heart like those few words. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• And I hope she's not a scolding old thing! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• But thought you might like your scolding better, my dear, if it came from me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• As I couldn't, I held my tongue, and bore the scolding till the old gentleman collared me. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• They ought to have told me, and not let me go blundering and scolding, when I should have been more kind and patient than ever. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Mrs. Bennet deigned not to make any reply, but, unable to contain herself, began scolding one of her daughters. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I should never like scolding any one else so well; and that is a point to be thought of in a husband. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• There was nothing the young gentleman would have liked better, but elephants could not have dragged him back after the scolding he had received. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• She's plenty of tin; she wears a front; and she scolds the servants from morning till night. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Mother, are you angry when you fold your lips tight together and go out of the room sometimes, when Aunt March scolds or people worry you? 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• A ducking stool was a sort of a chair in which common scolds were formerly tied and plunged into water. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He smokes his hookah after both meals and puffs as quietly while his wife scolds him as he did under the fire of the French at Waterloo. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• We never quarrel--I don't call him harsh--he never scolds me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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