Badger
['bædʒə] or ['bædʒɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere.
(verb.) persuade through constant efforts.
贾尼斯編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
(n.) A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (M. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana / Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.
(n.) A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.
(v. t.) To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.
(v. t.) To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.
安妮特手打
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Persecute, tease, worry, harry, annoy, vex, plague, harass, torment, pester, trouble, bother, hector.
手打:瓦内萨
解釋/意思:
n. a burrowing nocturnal hibernating animal about the size of a fox eagerly hunted by dogs.—v.t. to pursue with eagerness as dogs hunt the badger: to pester or worry.—ns. Badg′er-bait′ing the sport of setting dogs to draw out a badger from its hole; Badg′er-dog a long-bodied and short-legged dog used in drawing the badger—the Ger. dachshund.—adj. Badg′er-legged having legs of unequal length as the badger was vulgarly supposed to have.—adv. Badg′erly like a badger: grayish-haired elderly.—To overdraw one's badger to overdraw one's banking account.
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娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of a badger, is a sign of luck after battles with hardships.
編輯:纳内特
例句/造句/用法:
- Mrs. Badger considers it too yellow. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- His opponents tried to badger him in every way they could, and ridicule even his modest statements. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Mrs. Bayham Badger has not the appearance, Miss Summerson, of a lady who has had two former husbands? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I have forgotten to mention--at least I have not mentioned--that Mr. Woodcourt was the same dark young surgeon whom we had met at Mr. Badger's. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Of European reputation, added Mr. Badger in an undertone. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Mr. and Mrs. Badger were here yesterday, Richard, said I, and they seemed disposed to think that you had no great liking for the profession. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- And I get too much of Mrs. Bayham Badger's first and second. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Here in Gibraltar he corners these educated British officers and badgers them with braggadocio about America and the wonders she can perform! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Before the death of Queen Victoria, English shop assistants were being badgered to attend evening classes to learn French. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Mr Barnacle dated from a better time, when the country was not so parsimonious and the Circumlocution Office was not so badgered. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- We are quiet here; we don't get badgered here; there's no knocker here, sir, to be hammered at by creditors and bring a man's heart into his mouth. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Which I meantersay, cried Joe, that if you come into my place bull-baiting and badgering me, come out! 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
手打:路德维格