A: Stop it! ___________________________.

够了！你过去常常斥责我买便宜的东西。

B: It’s not me who degrades you. You degrade yourself. You often go back on your words and try to fool us around.

不是我侮辱你，是你自己在侮辱你自己，你总是说话不算数，还骗得我们团团转。

A: It’s unfair to say so.

这么说我不公平。

B: You’d better zip your lips. You will know what I feel when you become a father, having a son who is exactly the same as you.

你闭嘴，将来你的儿子也这样，你就明白我的感受了。

call someone on the carpet

1. 解词释义

Call someone on the carpet中的on the carpet的意思是“训斥”，在此做补语，因此，其意思为“严厉斥责某人”。此外，on the carpet还有“在考虑中，在审议中”的意思。

2. 拓展例句

e.g. He called his secretary on the carpet for losing a very important document.

他因秘书丢失一份重要文件而严厉斥责她。

e.g. She would rather have had her mistakes spoken about, even she would be called on the carpet.

她宁可叫他们尽量数说自己的错处，即使是极严厉的斥责。

e.g. The boy was so rough and rude that his mother called him on the carpet.

那男孩太粗野无理，他母亲严厉地斥责了他。

His smile disappeared, which seemed that he would call someone else on the carpet.

他的笑容不见了，貌似要斥责人的样子。