expostulation

1. In his expostulation he dropped his cleaner hand ( perhaps accidentally, perhaps not) upon the joker's heart.
   说话时他那只干净手有意无意地落到了那开玩笑的人心口。
2. There are also some expostulation poems among works written by literati of Han dynasty.
   汉代的文人诗歌创作，也有一些讽谏的作品。
3. It reflected Huang Daozhou's strong sense of historiographer, and implied the traditional paradigm in Book of Changes-intelligent satirical expostulation.
   奏疏中用《易》体现了黄道周浓厚的史官意识，其中蕴含着《易》-智-讽谏的传统范式。
4. But to no one would she grant her confidence, answering all taunts with bitter sarcasm, and all serious expostulation with sullen denial, or with floods of tears.
   可是她对谁都不吐露真情，她用辛辣的讽刺回击一切嘲弄；而对认真的规劝，不是矢口否认就是泪如泉涌。
5. I now went into an earnest expostulation with him upon the extravagant length of his report.
   接着我就开始苦口婆心地劝导他，说他写的报告过分冗长。
6. Discussion on the Expostulation System in Song Dynasty
   宋代言谏制度述论
7. Two Queen empresses intervention of the contents had differences, mainly because of the balance of power in the development of differences, song scholar-officials consciousness rising and "expostulation" system what was more effectively constrained song empress of politics.
   两位太后干政的内容的不同，主要是因为权力制衡上的不同，宋的士大夫意识崛起和台谏制度发展更能有效地约束宋代后妃的干政。

noun

1. an exclamation of protest or remonstrance or reproof

2. the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest

   Synonym:    remonstranceremonstrationobjection