- 看过 expostulate 的人也看了 :
- dissuade
- protest
- argue
- oppose
- remonstrate
expostulate 的定义
ex·pos·tu·lat·ed, ex·pos·tu·lat·ing.
- to reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done; remonstrate: His father expostulated with him about the evils of gambling.
expostulate 近义词
reason with
更多expostulate例句
- Situated as we were, we did not feel ourselves at liberty to expostulate against the obvious unreasonableness of their demands.
- “Yes,” replied the seamen, unanimously; and Ready knew that it was in vain to expostulate.
- To expostulate with the rebellious house of Israel he was sent.
- And so great had been my surprise over these last acquirements of the captain that until now I had had no breath to expostulate.
- Let us expostulate with these learned sages, these priests of the sacred temple of justice.