expostulate

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɛksˈpɒstjʊleɪt/    美 /ɛksˈpɑstjʊleɪt/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To protest or remonstrate; to reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of conduct [(often) with with]. intransitive
    — The tears would run plentifully down my face when I made these reflections; and sometimes I would expostulate with myself why Providence should thus completely ruin His creatures, and render them so absolutely miserable; so without help, abandoned, so entirely depressed, that it could hardly be rational to be thankful for such a life.

词形变化

expostulates present,singular,third-person expostulating participle,present expostulated participle,past expostulated past

词源

From Latin expostulō (“demand, claim”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, ex- + postulate.
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