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

• A righteous call of an officer down is my job.
  将一名警官的死付诸正义，是我的工作。
• 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。
• Call it down there then.
  刚才在那判罚的那个。
• College graduates should answer the party's call to go down to the grass-roots units.
  大学毕业生应响应党的号召到基层单位去。
• Call it a down payment on your next house.
  就当作是给你们下个房子的订金吧。
• I'll call down and get some more.
  我打电话下去叫服务员再送几条来吧。
• Hung-chien went with Hsin-mei and there they saw ku, who was waving his arms and stamping his feet to call them down.
  鸿渐跟辛楣去一看，就是顾先生，手舞足蹈地叫他们下来。
• Don't call Linda down for that mistake. I'm sure that she didn't make it on purpose.
  不要为了那个错误谴责琳达，我确信她不是故意犯错。
• She ain't gonna call the police with us down here.
  她不会叫警察的，我们都在这儿。