hectoring

英 [ˈhektərɪŋ]

美 [ˈhektərɪŋ]

v.  威逼; 威吓
hector的现在分词

COCA.45283

柯林斯词典

• VERB 威吓;欺凌
  If you say that someoneis hectoringyou, you do not like the way they are trying to make you do something by bothering you and talking to you aggressively.
  1. I suppose you'll hector me until I phone him.
     我想若是我不给他打电话，你就会一直威吓我。

双语例句

• Let us cease our interventions and call a halt to our endless hectoring.
  让我们停止干预，并发出呼吁：停止无休无止的威吓活动。
• Bitterness because his hero's welcome had turned into indifference to this dishevelled, hectoring, old-fashioned figure.
  悲愤是由于他受到的英雄式的欢迎变成了对散乱和欺凌漠不关心的过时的形象。
• Try talking to him gently instead of hectoring.
  和他谈话要温和，不要恐吓。
• Television interviewers were accused of being too aggressive and too hectoring with Party officials.
  电视采访记者受到指控，认为他们对党派官员们太咄咄逼人，气势汹汹。
• The pounding fist or raised forefinger in hectoring style will not necessarily enhance the quality of your performance.
  砸拳或竖起食指的手势带有威吓的含义，它对提高你表演的质量是无意义的。
• Then he tried to soothe workplace tension with a memo hectoring employees into working harder and faster.
  接下来，他又发布了一份备忘，鼓励员工更加努力和高效地工作，试图缓解弥漫于公司内部的紧张情绪。
• At its worst, the band can be hectoring, like a student who couldn't leave his lessons in the classroom.
  在其最坏状态时，乐队会变得作威作福，像一个不能离开在课堂上经验的学生。
• So simply hectoring China is not a smart option.
  因此，一味“欺负”中国并非明智之举。
• First, hectoring by the US makes it simply impossible for the Chinese to comply.
  第一，美国的“敲打”使中国根本不可能顺从。
• He avoided President Bush's hectoring tone and did not confront his host, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt.
  他避免了布什总统的威吓基调，也没有针对他的东道主、埃及总统胡斯尼·穆巴拉克。