criticize

批判する

人や物事について、悪いと思う点や間違いを述べる。

やさしい英語で： To say what you think is wrong or bad about someone or something.

• Please do not criticize my cooking.
• They criticized him for arriving late.
• The report criticizes the company’s poor safety record.

使い方： criticize someone/something for something (She criticized the council for its slow response.); criticize someone for doing something (He criticized me for leaving early.)

類義語： find fault with, attack

反対語： praise

よく使う表現： criticize someone for, criticize the government, criticize a decision

批評する、評価する

物事を検討し、良い点と悪い点の両方を評価する。

やさしい英語で： To examine something and judge both its good and bad points.

• Students learned to criticize poems carefully.
• Her essay criticizes the novel’s strengths and weaknesses.
• He criticized the painting with close attention to its use of color.

類義語： evaluate, assess, appraise

よく使う表現： criticize a poem, criticize a work, criticize a novel