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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
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Collins English-English Dictionary
- criticism ['krɪtɪ,sɪzəm]
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n
the act or an instance of making an unfavourable or severe judgment, comment, etc
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2.
n
textual criticism the investigation of a particular text, with related material, in order to establish an authentic text
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the analysis or evaluation of a work of art, literature, etc
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n
the occupation of a critic
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n
a work that sets out to evaluate or analyse
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1.
n
the act or an instance of making an unfavourable or severe judgment, comment, etc
Examples
- He can't tolerate any criticism.
- 他容不得任何批评。 → any
- captious criticism
- 强词夺理的批评 → captious
- constructive criticism
- 建设性的批评 → constructive
- destructive criticism
- 消极的批评 → destructive
- a fire of criticism
- 猛烈的批评 → fire
- positive criticism
- 建设性的批评 → positive
- proof against criticism
- 经得起批评 → proof
- a sharp criticism
- 尖锐的批评 → sharp
- a slight criticism
- 温和的批评 → slight
- criticism with much sting in it
- 颇多讥讽的批评 → sting
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