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单词 corporal punishment
释义
corporal punishmentˌcorporal ˈpunishment noun [uncountable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • In 1987, California prohibited corporal punishment in schools.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Beccaria was not, on the other hand, opposed to corporal punishment.
  • Cases of corporal punishment shall be reported by each teacher on the dates of their occurrence in writing.
  • For campaigners for the abolition of corporal punishment this will have been a setback.
  • In the 1890s magistrates were given the power to order corporal punishment as punishment for specific offences.
  • It was agreed that capital and corporal punishment should not be volunteered for the list of topics to be projected.
  • Lewis, in three-piece suit and striped shirt, supported the reintroduction of corporal punishment in schools.
  • Moderate Assembly Republicans broke ranks with conservative members to defeat a GOP-sponsored bill that would have returned corporal punishment to the classroom.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorto hit someone as a punishment
to repeatedly hit someone with your hand, with a stick etc as a punishment: · The guards used to regularly beat the prisoners.· Teachers are no longer allowed to beat students who misbehave.beat with: · Slaves were sometimes beaten with sticks or even whipped.
to hit someone repeatedly, especially a child who has behaved badly, with your open hand, on their bottom: · The two boys were spanked and sent to bed without their supper.· Many parents no longer spank their kids as a form of discipline.
also swat American to hit someone, especially a child who has behaved badly, with your open hand on their hand, the backs of their legs, their face etc: · If you don't stop that, I'll smack you!· Slap her hand lightly when she touches something she shouldn't.· He grinned and I wanted to swat him, but he wasn't my son so I didn't.
to hit someone violently and repeatedly with something such as a stick, in order to punish them: · The guards gave the prisoner a beating.give somebody a good/sound beating: · His father took him into the barn and gave him a good beating.
to hit someone very hard with a rope, whip etc especially on their back in order to punish them: · The hostage had terrible scars on his back where he had been whipped.· What kind of a society flogs women simply for saying what they think?
the practice of punishing people, especially children at school, by hitting them with something such as a stick: · In my first year at Hendon School, I had my first taste of corporal punishment.· Corporal punishment is, thankfully, no longer used.
WORD SETS
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punishment that involves hitting someone, especially in schools and prisonscapital punishment:  Corporal punishment was abolished in Britain in 1986.
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