call down

英 [kɔːl daʊn]

美 [kɔːl daʊn]

引起，招惹; 责骂（申斥）（某人）（

英英释义

verb

• censure severely or angrily
  1. The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
  2. The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
  3. The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup
  Synonym:call on the carpettake to taskrebukeragtrouncereprooflecturereprimandjawdress downscoldchideberatebawl outremonstratechew outchew uphave wordslambastelambast
• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
  1. raise the specter of unemployment
  2. he conjured wild birds in the air
  3. call down the spirits from the mountain
  Synonym:raiseconjureconjure upinvokeevokestirarousebring upput forwardcall forth

双语例句

• Why didn't you call us before coming down here?
  为什么你来之前没给我们打电话？
• Neglect to join up a break, to adjust your ring-frame, to keep the roller belt in place or to keep your loom clean, will call down the wrath of the foremen or thugs.
  只要断了线不接，锭壳轧坏，皮辊摆错方向，乃至车板上有什么堆积，就会遭到毒骂和毒打。
• If you don't change your ways, you'll call down the wrath of God upon yourself.
  如果你不改变你的做法，你将会受到上帝的惩罚。
• Every time I don't go to church on Sunday I have a guilty feeling that I'm going to call down the wrath of god.
  每当我星期天没有去做礼拜时，我总有一种将会招致上帝愤怒的犯罪感。
• I wondered what on earth this Mencken had done to call down upon him the scorn of the South.
  我想知道这个门肯究竟做了什么事，以至于招惹南方对他的轻蔑。
• Hey, Miss Patterson, could you call down to Media and have them send up the video tape of the Giants-Broncos Super Bowl and have them edit out the commercials and talkin'and stuff?
  嗯，帕特森小姐，能不能麻烦你告诉媒体部把超级杯大赛巨人队对野马队的录像带送来，顺便让他们把广告等剪掉？
• Call it a down payment on your next house.
  就当作是给你们下个房子的订金吧。
• She ain't gonna call the police with us down here.
  她不会叫警察的，我们都在这儿。
• I'd been on a few of the long squads and been disappointed, so when the text and call came I went down to London and loved every minute of it.
  我也时有进入预选名单的时候，但通常都是以失望收场。所以当我收到通知以后，我非常珍惜我在伦敦度过的每一分一秒。
• I'll call down and get some more.
  我打电话下去叫服务员再送几条来吧。