tell off

1. PHRASAL VERB 斥责;训斥;训诫
   If you tell someone off, you speak to them angrily or seriously because they have done something wrong.
   1. He never listened to us when we told him off...
      我们教训他时，他从来不听。
   2. I'm always being told off for being so awkward...
      我笨手笨脚的，总挨训。
   3. Dutch police told off two of the gang, aged 10 and 11.
      荷兰警方对一帮小混混中的两个人进行了训诫，他们一个 10 岁，另一个 11 岁。

1. He never listened to us when we told him off
   我们教训他时，他从来不听。
2. I'm always being told off for being so awkward
   我笨手笨脚的，总挨训。
3. Dutch police told off two of the gang, aged 10 and 11.
   荷兰警方对一帮小混混中的两个人进行了训诫，他们一个10岁，另一个11岁。
4. The man says: You go up there and tell him off.
   男士回应说：你快上去斥责他。
5. The kid was very cute, decked out in designer gear like the rest of his family, but sometimes incredibly hard not to discipline for example, he once spat in my face and I found I could do nothing to tell him off.
   小孩子非常可爱，跟家里其他人一样，全身上下也都是名牌；但有时候却很难管教比如，有一次他朝我脸上吐口水，而我却无能为力不好责罚他。
6. There are people who tell me off, he said in a phone interview. They say my writing is too vulgar.
   有人谴责我，他在接受电话采访时说，他们说我写的写作太粗俗。
7. I'd go to the kitchen to get breakfast, and he'd be waiting to tell me off.
   我去厨房做早餐，他会等在那数落我。
8. I can't tell you the answer off the topof my head.
   我不经考虑无法告诉你答案。
9. The old man like to tell off color joke.
   这老头爱开低级庸俗的玩笑。
10. Didn't I tell you to turn off the TV if you're not watching it?
    我没告诉你如果不看电视的话就关掉吗？
11. I am also bossy and happy to tell off teenage boys in the street when they are misbehaving.
    我还会专横而高兴地在街上斥责那些行为不端的十几岁男孩。
12. At worst, all she can do is tell you off for being late.
    充其量，她能做的不过是责备你迟到了而已。
13. At the end of which they tell you to piss off?
    然后他们给你说，你滚吧？
14. Patty: I think I will just tell him off. I'm going to burn my bridges, but at least I'll feel much better.
    佩蒂：我想我只会训他一顿。虽然我会把自己搞得无路可退，但至少我会好过一点。
15. It was perhaps rude of him to tell you to push off when you hadn't yet finished talking.
    你还没有谈完，他就叫你走，那可以说是很不礼貌的。
16. The farmers used a special system of counting to tell off their sheep.
    农民们使用一种特殊的计数方法清点羊的头数。
17. And you have the balls to tell me it's off?
    你却告诉我我们结束了？
18. My boyfriend likes to argue. I finally have to tell him off and keep him away from me for days.
    我的男朋友真喜欢辩论。最后我只好叫他住嘴，几天内别来找我。
19. He'll tell you to get off.
    那他会让你下车的。
20. Even if they tell you off, it will be with basic good will.
    即使他们责备你，那也是带着基本的善意。
21. And if you wanted to tell someone off in Spanish our relatively obvious "go fly a kite" would be better served by the phrase "go fry asparagus".
    如果你想用西班牙语指责某人“放空头支票”，那么最好是用“gofryasparagus”，而不是相对较直白地说“goflyakite”。
22. She had the audacity to tell him off.
    她有胆量叫他走开。
23. They might even be willing to pretend to tell you off so that you don't lose face with your friends.
    他们也许会假装推脱离开，这样你也不失面子。
24. A: If Maggie's late, I'm going to tell her off.
    如果玛姬迟到的话，我要骂骂她。
25. If you see anyone hanging aroundhere tell them to hop off.
    如果你看到有人在这儿闲荡，就叫他们走开。
26. Didn't she tell you she was off early today?
    她没告诉你吗？她今天早下班的。
27. Tomorrow I'll go back to tell him off: I'll make his ears burn for a week!
    明天，我得去骂他，我得让他一个礼拜都感到害臊。
28. Won't you tell your dad get off my back?
    你能让你爸爸别对我不依不饶么？
29. All right, look. I'm gonna call her and tell her to back off.
    那好吧，我会给她打电话叫她别来烦你。
30. Not only will I tell him off, but I'm going to give him his walking papers.
    我不仅要斥责他，而且我还要解雇他。

verb

1. reprimand
   1. She told the misbehaving student off

   Synonym:    brush down