pester
pester 英 [ˈpestə(r)] 美 [ˈpɛstɚ]
vt. 纠缠，烦扰；使烦恼
进行时:pestering 过去式:pestered 过去分词:pestered 第三人称单数:pesters
- To pester someone is to annoyingly nag them about something. Pestering is repetitive and bothersome.
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- vt. 纠缠，烦扰；使烦恼
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1. They know that standing up to pester power makes for an awful day, but it also makes for a better future, " he said.
他们知道，要经受住孩子的纠缠有可能使这一天都很烦人，但是同样能产生美好的未来。
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2. The Big Girl chooses to pester me with her pleas to get her ear pierced just before school, just before bed, or when I'm rifling in the refrigerator with a wolfish look.
可我的大闺女总选择在上学前一刻、睡前或我正当带着豺狼般贪婪的面目洗劫冰箱时来纠缠我，恳求我允许她穿耳洞。
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3. The Big Girl chooses to pester me with her pleas to get her ear pierced just before school, just before bed, or when I'm rifling in the refrigerator with a wolfish look.
可我的大女儿总选择在上学前一刻、睡前或我正当带着豺狼般贪婪的面目洗劫冰箱时来纠缠我，恳求我允许她穿耳洞。
- pester (v.) 1520s, "to clog, entangle, encumber," probably a shortening of Middle French empestrer "place in an embarrassing situation" (Modern French empêtrer, Walloon epasturer), from Vulgar Latin *impastoriare "to hobble" (an animal), from Latin im- "in" + Medieval Latin pastoria (chorda) "(rope) to hobble an animal," from Latin pastoria, fem. of pastorius "of a herdsman," from pastor "herdsman" (see pastor (n.)). Sense of "annoy, trouble" (1560s) is from influence of pest. Related: Pestered; pestering.
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