philippic
noun [ C ] formal uk/fɪˈlɪp.ɪk/ us/fɪˈlɪp.ɪk/
猛烈的抨击，痛斥
a strong criticism of someone or something, especially in a speech
Mr Amery's philippic was delivered as usual to half-empty benches in Parliament. 像往常一样，艾默里先生在半空着的议会里发表了抨击性的讲话。
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- Kagan's philippic was published on Feb. 5, 2003, just 10 days before Europe saw the largest political demonstration in its history.
- He regales us instead with a philippic against number, a philippic in which literary flourishes and Hegelian tradition are intermixed.
- A philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a bombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis.
- One person's heresy is another's orthodoxy - the tamest discourse may be heard as a thunderous philippic.