Reproof

(n.) Refutation; confutation; contradiction.

(n.) An expression of blame or censure; especially, blame expressed to the face; censure for a fault; chiding; reproach.

手打:马吉

• Your humility, Mr. Bingley, said Elizabeth, must disarm reproof. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Your reproof, so well applied, I shall never forget: 'had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• The clergyman stayed to exchange a few sentences, either of admonition or reproof, with his haughty parishioner; this duty done, he too departed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The reproof of an immediate conclusion of everything, the sweep of every preparation, would be sufficient. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Some very grave reproof, or at least the coldest expression of indifference, must be coming to distress her brother, and sink her to the ground. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Were I even by any blessed chance at liberty again Elinor stopped him with a reproof. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• And this particular reproof irritated him more than any other. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• My reproofs at Hunsford could not work such a change as this. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.

校对:谢尔比