expostulate
expostulate 英 [ɪkˈspɒstʃuleɪt] 美 [ɪkˈspɑstʃuleɪt]
vi. 劝诫，告诫；忠告
进行时:expostulating 过去式:expostulated 过去分词:expostulated 第三人称单数:expostulates 名词复数:expostulates
- When you expostulate, you argue strongly against someone doing something. You might expostulate with your little brother, objecting to his plan to jump off the roof into a pile of leaves.
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- vi. 劝诫，告诫；忠告
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1. Tess did not expostulate.
不，苔丝。
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2. I expostulate with her on the impropriety.
因行为不当我向她提出告诫。
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3. On December 7, Zhang Xueliang arrived at Huaqingchi, Lingtong and “try hard to expostulate” with Chiang about “Stopping the civil war and unanimously resisting Japan”, but the advice was rejected.
7日，张学良到临潼华清池向蒋“苦谏”，请求“停止内战，一致抗日”，遭蒋拒绝，蒋坚持不改“剿共”政策。
- expostulate (v.) 1530s, "to demand, to claim," from Latin expostulatus, past participle of expostulare "to demand urgently, remonstrate, find fault, dispute, complain of, demand the reason (for someone's conduct)," from ex- "from" (see ex-) + postulare "to demand" (see postulate (v.)). Friendlier sense of "to reason earnestly (with someone) against a course of action, etc." is first recorded in English 1570s. Related: Expostulated; expostulating.
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