earful

noun

1. 长时间的斥责（或牢骚）
   if sb gives you an earful , they tell you for a long time how angry they are about sth

1. N-SING （长时间的）训斥，数落
   If you say that you got an earful, you mean that someone spoke angrily to you for quite a long time.
   1. I bet Sue gave you an earful when you got home.
      我敢说你到家时休肯定训了你一顿。

1. I bet Sue gave you an earful when you got home.
   我敢说你到家时休肯定训了你一顿。
2. When talent management consultants development dimensions international quizzed more than 2,000 newly hired employees about strange questions they had fielded in job interviews, the researchers got an earful.
   人才管理咨询公司美国智睿咨询有限公司（DevelopmentDimensionsInternational）调查了2000多名最近被聘用的员工，询问他们在面试过程中遇到的奇怪问题，结果调查人员收集了一大堆问题。
3. If he comes and bothers you again, I'll give him an earful.
   如果他再来烦你，我会教训他一顿。
4. I get an earful [ from them] every day.
   每天我都是在他们的牢骚声中度过的。
5. Now, all these people risk getting an earful from gay rights organizations and their publicists.
   现在，这些人都面临遭到同性恋权力组织和他们的宣传人员斥责的可能性。
6. It might be tempting to give the boss an earful if you land a new job in the coming months.
   如果你在今后几个月里找到了新的工作，离职前向现任老板发顿牢骚或许听起来很诱人。
7. But the complaint department at the condom company got an earful.
   但避孕套公司给了我吃惊的回答。
8. I'd better not be late or my granny will give me an earful about my laziness and thoughtlesshess.
   我最好别迟到，要不然我奶奶会训斥我既懒惰又考虑不周。
9. I guess Adelman gave them an earful at halftime and they came out with more intensity in the3rd.
   我猜阿德尔曼在中场休息的时候对此抱怨了几句，他们在第3节上场的时候打起精神来了。
10. Now, Fisher figures he's just another Laker getting an earful from Utah fans.
    现在，老鱼估计他成为另外一个被爵士球迷狂嘘的湖人球员了。
11. Almost everyone in the circle caught an earful of Rick's words, and the usual evening's chatter abruptly ceased.
    几乎圈子中的每一个人都听到了瑞克惊人的回答，在旁晚时分，往常那喋喋不休的谈话戛然而止。
12. I gave him an earful on how he had oppressed me all our married life.
    就结婚以来他如何一直欺压我这一事实，我狠狠骂了他一顿。
13. Her mom gave her an earful when she came home late at night.
    她很晚才回家，被妈妈训了一顿。
14. Every time even a slightly contentious decision went United's way, one fan with an alarmingly intense stare would turn round to face me and Paddy and gave us a bit of an earful.
    每次只要裁判把球判给曼联，一个球迷就会阴沉着脸转过来看我和帕蒂并且大倒垃圾话。
15. The weather and climate conditions have resulted in serious disasters to the agriculture production in the whole country this year. They can expect an earful on what the slump is doing economically.
    本年度天气气候条件对全国农业生产属重灾年景。他们将因商业不景气对经济所产生的影响而受到严厉的训斥。
16. However beautiful heart, no have earful, does not complain!
    不过心里很美，没有怨言，没有抱怨！
17. FEMA leaders are getting an earful from Congress.
    联邦应急管理局受到议会的严厉斥责。
18. "still treat me like I was in senior high," Song Ying, a19-year-old freshman at Shandong University, complained." I get an earful every day. "
    “父母像对待高中生一样对待我。”山东大学大一学生，19岁的宋颖抱怨到。“每天我在的牢骚声中度过的。”
19. I reckon the mechanic and air conditioning installer could be in for an earful on Peter's return to Mornington.
    “不要去改装一辆车”这句老话在这时候正合适。我估计机械师和空调安装师在彼得回到摩林顿后也许将会对此进行抱怨。
20. If anyone touched him, they'd get an earful.
    要是谁敢碰他一下，准会挨一顿臭骂。
21. You can just image the earful he gave her when they got home.
    不难想象等他们回家后，他会怎样斥责她。
22. He gave me an earful of complaints about his new boss.
    他滔滔不绝向我抱怨他的新老板。

noun

1. a severe scolding

   Synonym:    castigationbawling outchewing outupbraidinggoing-overdressing down

2. an outpouring of gossip