teach a lesson

教训受教授业解惑授课

teach a lesson 的定义

  1. Punish in order to prevent a recurrence of bad behavior. For example, Timmy set the wastebasket on fire; that should teach him a lesson about playing with matches. This term uses lesson in the sense of “a punishment or rebuke,” a usage dating from the late 1500s. Also see learn one's lesson.

teach a lesson 近义词

teach a lesson

等同于 punish

更多teach a lesson例句

  1. ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
  2. He was getting another lesson in what he had seemed not to appreciate fully about cops.
  3. I asked her how her trainers, born and raised in Iran, have learned how to teach hip-hop.
  4. Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
  5. But when their students asked them how they could teach civics if they could not vote, they took to the streets.
  6. Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
  7. He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!
  8. And remember it is by our hypothesis the best possible form and arrangement of that lesson.
  9. All that scientific bric-a-brac in the cupboard had far better be thrown away.
  10. “It means, my dear, that the Dragoons and the 60th will have to teach these impudent rebels a much-needed lesson,” said her uncle.