1. N-SING If you give someone a talking-to, you speak to them severely, usually about something unacceptable that they have done, in order to show them they were wrong. 批評(píng)[非正式]['a' N]
a severetalk with someone who has done something wrong 申斥，責(zé)罵 I gave her a good talking-to about doing her homework on time . 我狠狠訓(xùn)了她一頓，讓她按時(shí)做作業(yè)。 返回 talking-to