expostulation meaning in English
n.
劝导，忠告。
Examples
- He would listen to no expostulations .
他对谁的劝告都不听。 - My expostulations had no results .
我的劝诫均无结果。 - His wife's expostulations awoke his half slumbering regrets .
他妻子的苦苦规劝，勾引起他内心潜在的悔恨情绪。 - But to no one would she grant her confidence, answering all taunts with bitter sarcasm, and all serious expostulation with sullen denial, or with floods of tears .
可是她对谁都不吐露真情，她用辛辣的讽刺回击一切嘲弄；而对认真的规劝，不是矢口否认就是泪如泉涌。 - On the significance of the imperial censors ' expostulation in the constitutional reformation in the late qing dynasty
论晚清预备立宪期间御史谏议的作用