inveigh

英 [?n've?] 美[?n've]

GRE暢通詞匯

第三人稱單數:?inveighs;過去式:?inveighed;過去分詞:?inveighed;現在分詞:?inveighing;

inveigh 猛烈抨擊，痛罵

in-,進入，使，-veigh,攜帶，運載，詞源同vehicle,wagon.詞義演變同invective.

inveigh: inveigh: [15] Inveigh originally meant ‘carry in, introduce’ (‘In them are two colours quarterly put: the one into the other, and so one colour is inveighed into another’, Book of Saint Albans 1486). Its second syllable comes from Latin vehere ‘carry’ (source of English vector, vehicle, and vex). Invehere meant simply ‘carry in’, but its passive infinitive form invehī denoted ‘be carried into’, ‘go into’, and hence ‘attack (physically or verbally)’. This latter sense was imported into English inveigh in the early 16th century, and into the derivative invective [15].
=> invective, vehicle, vex
inveigh (v.): late 15c., "to introduce," from Latin invehi "to attack with words," originally "carry oneself against," passive infinitive of invehere "bring in, carry in," from in- "against" (see in- (1)) + vehere "to carry" (see vehicle). Meaning "to give vent to violent denunciation" is from 1520s. Related: Inveighed; inveighing.

1. A lot of his writings inveigh against luxury and riches.: 他的很多文章都痛批奢華與財富。

2. The poisons generated by remorse inveigh against the system, and eventually produce marked physical deterioration.: 由悔恨產生的毒素侵襲著身體組織, 最終造成明顯的體質惡化.

3. The detective had, indeed, good reasons to inveigh against the bad luck which pursued him.: 說實在話, 一點也不能怪費克斯咒罵他一再碰上的壞運氣.