beleaguer
beleaguer 英 [bɪ'li:gə] 美 [bɪˈliɡɚ]
vt. 围攻；围
进行时:beleaguering 过去式:beleaguered 过去分词:beleaguered 第三人称单数:beleaguers
- Beleaguer means to pester or badger with persistence. A babysitter might find annoying the children who beleaguer her with requests for candy, cookies, games, and piggyback rides all at the same time.
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- vt. 围攻；围
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1. Serious troubles continue to beleaguer the operators of the Japanese nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture that was crippled by an earthquake and tsunami.
福岛县核电站在地震和海啸中遭到破坏，核电站至今仍然面临严峻问题。
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2. Curiger sees “a lot of commonalities between the Venetian master's quest and the eagerness of some contemporary artists to defy the conventions which beleaguer art in our time.”
Curiger 看到“在威尼斯大师的探求和当代艺术家热心反抗习俗中的许多共性，在我们这个时代，艺术被围攻，这些当代艺术家们敢公然反抗习俗。”
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3. Even today, in some parts of China, it is common practice for a man to seek justice by summoning his family and their allies to beleaguer the home of the person who wronged him.
人们受了欺负，便召来家里人和亲戚围攻仇家，这在今天中国的一些地方还是司空见惯的。
- beleaguer (v.) 1580s, "besiege, surround, blockade," literal and figurative, from Dutch or Low German belegeren "to besiege," from be- "around" (from Proto-Germanic *bi- "around, about;" see by) + legeren "to camp," from leger "bed, camp, army, lair," from Proto-Germanic *legraz-, from PIE *legh-ro-, suffixed form of root *legh- "to lie down, lay." A word from the Flemish Wars (cognates: Swedish belägra, Dutch belegeren "besiege," German Belagerung "siege"). Spelling influenced by league. Related: Beleaguered; beleaguering.
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