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单词 scold
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scold
This holds good for scolds (predominantly female) as well as for exclusively or predominantly male offences.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Employees were aware that a longer time spent trying to understand a directive would result in being scolded for not having fulfilled the directive promptly.
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He praised the energetic and scolded the slack; and competition for honour proved as effective as compulsion.
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In addition to three presentments as ascoldand one for hedgebreaking, she was co-defendant with her husband in three or more trespass suits.
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In the second decade of the sixteenth century, male scolds begin to appear, albeit in very small numbers.
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Instead of dutifully keeping his mouth shut when instructed or scolded, he answered back with unbecoming impunity.
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We don'tscold, but give advice instead and tell them what they should do.
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But since most were long-term residents, it seems that being presented as ascoldwas something that happened only once to most of these individuals.
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This will be followed by a more detailed examination of the presentments for scolding and closely related offences in the same period.
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Three other women were presented simply as scolds.
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Prosecutions of scolds took place from the late fourteenth century onwards, and hardly amounted to an epidemic in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
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There is no surviving record of anyone being presented as ascoldbetween 1533 and 1563, when two women and a man were charged.
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There were other individuals with comparable or longer histories of misdemeanours who were neither accused of scolding nor had spouses who were.
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Of the 23, 17 were presented only once for scolding, as far as we can tell.
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The only "hospital bureaucracy" he faced was the nursing staff, who constantly scolded him for working too hard.
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