(1) 1)批評，指摘(act of finding faults;unfavourable judgement)[U]：hate/resent/receive/can't take～of sth憎惡/怨恨/接受/不能接受對……的批評指摘;There was much～of the new plan.對那個新計劃微詞頗多。fierce public～of sth公眾對……的激烈批評;face(come in for) severe/a lot of～about the unemployment situation面臨(招致)對失業(yè)形勢的嚴(yán)厲/大量批評; 2)(具體的)批評意見(unfavourable opinion or remark that points out a fault or faults)[C]：have several～s of the plan 對那個計劃有幾條批評意見;one of the main～s against sb對某人的主要批評意見之一;I don't mean this as a～.我說這話目的不是要批評。
(2) 1)評論藝術(shù)(art of evaluating and judging the quality of works of art，literature，music，etc)[U]：literary/art～文學(xué)/藝術(shù)評論; 2)(具體的)評論意見(such a judgement)[C]：the two～s of the play 關(guān)于那個劇的兩條評論;write～s for the local newspaper為當(dāng)?shù)貓蠹垖懺u論文章;
←′critic n 批評(指摘)者;批評(評論)家;
【辨異】criticism與review都可表示書面的“評論”，指影、劇評論時，常可任意換用;區(qū)別在于，指文學(xué)評論時，review(評論)的書面色彩較弱，因此，常出現(xiàn)于報紙和通訊期刊上，如：movie/play/book reviews(影/劇/書評);而criticism則限于學(xué)術(shù)期刊和書籍。