1.DFCHOLEto make a hole through a piece of food, an object etc with a skewer or with some other pointed object 〔用烤肉扦或类似东西〕把…串起来
2to criticize someone very strongly, often in a way that other people find humorous 讽刺,讥讽
Du Bois skewered Washington’s policies in his book, ‘The Souls of Black Folks’.
杜波伊斯在他《黑人的灵魂》一书中讽刺了美国政府的政策。
Examples from the Corpus
skewer• And every time I open the curtains, my conscience is skewered.• This piece of wood passes right through Turnbull, so that he is skewered.• If you skewered a Huey on a sharpstump during an assault, it was piloterror.• How she would have skewered all this passing fuss with her incisivewit!• Embedded in the wood, it momentarily skewered him to the window-frame.• All filmmakers that have done that have gotten skewered over and over and over.• Simon skewers the RollingStones in their old age in her song, "The Reason."• They nibbledchunks of Cheddarcheeseskewered with toothpicks.• This is a good thing because, even if you could, further impacts might well drive them inwards, skewering your lungs.
Originskewer1
(1400-1500) Perhaps from skiver“skewer”((15-19 centuries))