admonish

英 [?d'm?n??] 美[?d'mɑn??]

TEM8GRE擴(kuò)展詞匯

第三人稱單數(shù):?admonishes;過(guò)去式:?admonished;過(guò)去分詞:?admonished;現(xiàn)在分詞:?admonishing;

admonish 警告

前綴ad-, 去，往。詞根mon, 建議，警告，同monitor,班長(zhǎng)。

admonish: admonish: [14] In Middle English times this verb was amoneste. It came, via Old French amonester, from an assumed Vulgar Latin verb *admonestāre, an alteration of Latin admonēre (monēre meant ‘warn’, and came from the same source as English mind). The prefix ad- was reintroduced from Latin in the 15th century, while the -ish ending arose from a mistaken analysis of -este as some sort of past tense inflection; the t was removed when producing infinitive or present tense forms, giving spellings such as amonace and admonyss, and by the 16th century this final -is had become identified with and transformed into the more common -ish ending.
=> mind
admonish (v.): mid-14c., amonesten "remind, urge, exhort, warn, give warning," from Old French amonester (12c.) "urge, encourage, warn," from Vulgar Latin *admonestare, from Latin admonere "bring to mind, remind, suggest;" also "warn, advise, urge," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + monere "advise, warn" (see monitor (n.)).

The -d- was restored on Latin model. The ending was influenced by words in -ish (such as astonish, abolish). Related: Admonished; admonishing.

1. The ethics committee may take a decision to admonish him or to censure him.: 道德委員會(huì)也許會(huì)決定對(duì)他進(jìn)行訓(xùn)誡或是嚴(yán)厲批評(píng)。

2. In this strain Mrs. Trenor continued for nearly an hour to admonish her friend.: 雷諾太太用這種口吻繼續(xù)對(duì)她的朋友數(shù)落了幾乎一小時(shí).

3. Practically or ethically, we cannot simply admonish them to not clear forest.: 不管是基于實(shí)際上或道德上的考量, 我們都不能單只責(zé)備這些人、叫他們不準(zhǔn)砍伐森林.

5. I will tactfully admonish him not to behave like this again.: 我會(huì)婉轉(zhuǎn)的規(guī)誡他不要這樣做.