decry

verb

1. （公开）谴责；（强烈）批评
   to strongly criticize sb/sth, especially publicly
   1. The measures were decried as useless.
      这些措施受到指责，说是不起作用。

1. VERB （强烈）谴责，抨击，反对
   If someone decries an idea or action, they criticize it strongly.
   1. He is impatient with those who decry the scheme...
      对于那些反对该方案的人，他表现得很不耐烦。
   2. People decried the campaign as a waste of money.
      人们谴责这一活动是浪费金钱。

1. He is impatient with those who decry the scheme
   对于那些反对该方案的人，他表现得很不耐烦。
2. People decried the campaign as a waste of money.
   人们谴责这一活动是浪费金钱。
3. Both Robert Lucas, a Nobel Prize winner from the University of Chicago, and Robert Barro of Harvard debunk the power of the multiplier effect, and decry the burden borrowing imposes on future growth.
   诺贝尔奖获得者、芝加哥大学的罗伯特•卢卡斯和哈佛大学（Harvard）的罗伯特•巴若均对乘数效应的有效性进行了批判，并强烈谴责借贷对未来增长造成的负担。
4. It falls neatly into the growing genre of anti-higher education tirades that decry the rising cost of education and the lack of any guarantees.
   它们与一些越来越抵制高等教育的反对人士不谋而合，那些反对派谴责高等学府一方面不断提高教育成本，一方面缺少对学生未来就业的任何保障。
5. A generation after many prominent feminists encouraged women to have it all, we continue to decry the absence of women in politics, business and other positions of power.
   身处多位著名女权主义者鼓励妇女拥有一切的一代我们，仍然因在政界，商界和其他业界鲜见女性掌权而发起责难。
6. And, if so, is there anyone today who still would decry call-ahead airport pickup services?
   即便如此，现在还会有人谴责机场预约接机服务吗？
7. 'You seem to be a genuine cosmopolite,'I said admiringly.'But it also seems that you would decry patriotism.'
   您真是个真正的世界公民，我羡慕得说，但是这也让您显得有点毁谤了爱国主义。
8. Presenting a new currency regime to the likes of Dominique Strauss-Kahn of the International Monetary Fund, who has wasted few opportunities to decry an "undervalued" Renminbi in recent years, may stick in the craw.
   把调整人民币汇率作为礼物，送给近年来一有机会就谴责人民币“被低估”的国际货币基金组织（imf）总裁多米尼克斯特劳斯-卡恩（dominiquestrauss-kahn）之流，或许会让人感到难以接受。
9. It would be a complete mistake to decry love of power altogether as a motive.
   对权欲作为一个动机全盘否定是完全错误的。
10. Although it is fashionable to decry finance and its models, financiers are ahead of the game here.
    尽管目前流行贬低金融学及金融学模型，但金融学家在这方面却早有建树。
11. A decade ago, it was fashionable for western consultants, bankers and business people to decry Japan's domestic service industry.
    10年前，对于西方咨询顾问、银行家和商业人士而言，谴责日本国内的服务行业是一件时髦的事情。
12. On the left, people who struggle the hardest for social change would decry changes in other countries that they view as a result of globalization.
    一方面，竭尽全力推进社会改革的人可能会谴责其他国家中他们认为由全球化引起的变革。
13. Why decry the wealth gap?
    贫富差距，为什么要谴责它？
14. After all, these days it is popular for pundits to decry the dumbing down of the US media in general, and television in particular.
    毕竟，如今评论人士喜欢谴责美国媒体总体水平低俗，尤其是电视。
15. And it might take a brave energy minister to endorse a measure that many would decry as unvarnished protectionism.
    而且，恐怕只有足够勇敢的能源部长，才会批准这种会被许多人斥为明目张胆的贸易保护主义行径的措施。
16. It is hardly surprising that a green lobby group should decry the practices of the logging industry.
    绿色环保团体谴责伐木公司的行为一点也不令人惊讶。
17. In an earlier statement, Ali did decry what he called the "continuous threats of Al-Shabab terrorists" to refugees and aid workers.
    在早先的一份声明中，阿里总理曾经谴责他所称的“青年党恐怖份子对难民和救援人员持续的威胁”。
18. "You seem to be a genuine cosmopolite," I said admiringly." But it also seems that you would decry patriotism. "During hypnosis, it is as though the brain temporarily suspends its attempts to authenticate incoming sensory information.
    你似乎是个货真价实的世界公民，我羡慕地说。不过，你似乎也抵毁了爱国主义。在催眠时，脑似乎暂时停止判断进入的感觉讯息是否真实。
19. What we are accustomed to decry as great social evils, will, for the most part, be found to be but the outgrowth of man's own perverted life;
    我们惯常指责为社会灾害的东西，很大程度上都只不过肇始于人们自己生活的荒淫；
20. On, no need to decry your industry!
    得了，您很勤快，不必谦虚了！
21. Thus I do not mean to decry a fashion, but to underscore the motive behind the contemporary taste for the extreme in art and thought.
    因而，我在这里并不是想批驳一种流行的观念，而是意欲从当代的艺术和思潮中揭示出隐藏于极端趣味背后的内部动因。
22. Cultural historians and moralists have tended to write from an aristocratic point of view and to decry the breakdown of standards.
    文化历史学家和道德家则倾向于从贵族的观点出发来论述，竭力反对打破一切标准。

verb

1. express strong disapproval of
   1. We condemn the racism in South Africa
   2. These ideas were reprobated

   Synonym:    condemnreprobateobjurgateexcoriate