moralize
英 [ˈmɒr.əl.aɪz]
美 [ˈmɔːr.əl.aɪz]
- vt. 教化，从道德上解释；从…引出道德教训
- vi. 说教；讲道德
中文词源
moralize 进行道德说教
来自moral,道德的，-ize,使。讽刺用法。
英语词源
- moralize (v.)
- c. 1400, "expound or interpret spiritual or moral significance," from Old French moraliser and directly from Late Latin moralizare, from moralis (see moral (adj.)). Related: Moralized; moralizing.
权威例句
- 1. As a dramatist I hate to moralize.
- 作为一名剧作家，我憎恨说教。
- 2. My dear boy, you are really beginning to moralize.
- 好孩子, 你真是开始说教啦.
- 3. But he did not moralize long.
- 但是,他对这些大道理想得并不长久.
- 4. His ethicism often led him to moralize.
- 他的道德主义使他经常说教他人.
- 5. A man who moralize is usually a hypocrite, and a women who moralize is invariably plain.
- 说教的男人通常是个伪善者, 而说教的女人则必定是个丑女.