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嚴厲責備；嚴厲處罰。

• If you miss any more classes, your teachers will be down on you like a ton of bricks. (如果你再有一次不去上課，你的老師一定會嚴懲你)
• If my father finds me misbehaving, he’ll come down on me like a ton of bricks. (如果我父親發現我搗蛋的話，他決不會輕饒我)

Assail 僅當動詞用，而 assault 可當動詞和名詞用。就動詞而言，這兩個字有幾個意思是同義詞，包括「襲擊；攻擊」、「抨擊；嚴厲批評」及「困擾；使感到苦惱」。它們通常可以互換，甚至源自同一個古法文字 asilir，但它們的用法卻有些差異。

Assail 鮮少指 (傷害他人身體的) 暴力 (行為)，而是指口頭上的攻擊，即「抨擊」，而 assault 往往指更嚴厲的批評且通常指 (傷害他人身體的) 暴力攻擊，如 While the business community has assailed the tax reform, most of the government officials have come out to support it. (儘管商業界抨擊這項稅改，但大多數政府官員都挺身而出表示支持)；Police are searching for a man who used a steel pipe to assault a famous singer. (警方正在搜尋一名用鋼管攻擊一位名歌手的男子)；The county magistrate was assaulted by young demonstrators. (縣長遭到年輕示威者的襲擊)。

A Muslim girl holds a balloon during a morning prayer marking the Eid al-Adha holiday on a street in Jakarta, Indonesia on Tuesday, Oct. 15. Traditionally, Muslims all over the world slaughter cattle and goats, with some distributing the meat to the needy, during the holiday which honors the prophet Abraham for preparing to sacrifice his son Ishmael on the order of God, who was testing his faith. (AP)

An Olive Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) swims at Ixtapilla Beach in Aquila municipality on the Pacific coast of Michoacan State, Mexico, on Sunday, Oct. 13. According to the residents of the area, more than 1000 turtles are expected to arrive in the area daily this season. (AFP)

The Kansas University mascot pretends to peer through a camera borrowed from a member of the media as the Kansas football team nears the end zone in an NCAA college football game against TCU in Fort Worth, Texas on Saturday, Oct. 12. (AP)

Kids have fun playing in sandbox in a beach-themed room at a government-run daycare center in Xindian, New Taipei City, yesterday. It was the first day of operation at the center, which is located inside the Xinhe Elementary School. (CNA)

A nun passes trough a bronze door as a Swiss guard stands at attention at the Vatican on Monday, Oct. 7. (AFP)

A participant is terrified by a "zombie" soldier in a forest section during one of Britain's biggest horror events, the "Zombie Evacuation Race" at Carver Barracks near Saffron Walden, England, on Saturday, Oct. 5. The race sees thousands of participants attempt to complete a grueling 5-kilometer cross-country run while evading "zombies" who are intent on snatching the three "life-line" strips hanging from every runner's waist. (AFP)

A Bangladeshi idol-maker puts the finishing touches on a clay statue of the Hindu goddess Durga in a temple in Dhaka on Wednesday, Oct. 2. The annual five-day Hindu festival worships the goddess Durga, who symbolizes power and the triumph of good over evil in Hindu mythology. (AFP)

In this 2008 file photo, South Korean director and pacifist Jang We-seok stands nude in front of a tank to signify his opposition to South Korea's Armed Forces Day. On Tuesday, Oct. 1, Kang ran naked in the War Memorial of Korea opposite South Korea's defense ministry in Seoul to lodge the same protest, according to media reports. (CNA)

Indian artists dressed as characters in the Hindu epic Ramayana wait to participate in a procession as part of Dussehra festival celebrations in Allahabad, India on Monday, Sept. 30. The Hindu festival Dussehra commemorates the triumph of Lord Rama over the demon king Ravana, marking the victory of good over evil. (AP)

Feng Tao-hsien (馮桃鮮) yesterday poses for a photo beside a life-sized cardboard cut-out of her twenty-something-year-old self. Feng was invited as a special guest to attend "A Centenary Exhibition of Taiwan's Transportation Archives" at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. She was a member of the first generation of on-board service attendants for Golden Horse Express Buses (金馬號), later renamed Kuo-Kwang Limousine Buses (國光號). (CNA)

A woman plays with pigeons during a meditation day for Peace in Colombia at the Bolivar Square in Bogota on Saturday, Sept. 28. (AFP)