pillory

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation. historical
    — Maires and Maceris that meanes be betwene / The Kynge and the comon to kepe the lawes / To pũnyſhen on pyleries and pynning ſtoles / Bruſterrs and bakeſters, bochers and cokes / For theſe ar mẽ on this mold þᵉ moſt harme worketh / To the pore people that percel mele byghe[...]
    Mayors and mace-bearers, the means are between / The king and the commons to see the law kept, / To punish on pillories and punishment stools / Brewers and bakers, butchers and cooks, / For these are this world's men that work the most harm / To the poor people that must buy piece-meal.
动词 v.
  1. To put in a pillory. transitive
  2. To subject to humiliation, scorn, ridicule or abuse. figuratively,transitive
    — There was no malice in my rubbish; but it laughed at the captain. It laughed at a man to whom such a thing was new and strange and dreadful. I did not know then, though I do now, that there is no suffering comparable with that which a private person feels when he is for the first time pilloried in print.
  3. To criticize harshly. transitive
    — The breakthrough came through Torres who, pilloried for his miss against Manchester United a week earlier, scored his second goal of the season.

词形变化

pillories plural pillories present,singular,third-person pillorying participle,present pilloried participle,past pilloried past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English pilory, pillorie, from Old French pilori, pellori, which is either from Old Occitan espilori or Latin pīla (“pillar”).
词源 2
From Middle English pilory, pillorie, from Old French pilori, pellori, which is either from Old Occitan espilori or Latin pīla (“pillar”).
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