Besiege
[bɪ'siːdʒ] or [bɪ'sidʒ]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) harass, as with questions or requests; 'The press photographers besieged the movie star'.
(verb.) surround so as to force to give up; 'The Turks besieged Vienna'.
(verb.) cause to feel distressed or worried; 'She was besieged by so many problems that she got discouraged'.
整理:马库斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset.
柏妮丝手打
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Surround (with a military force), beset, beleaguer, invest, lay siege to.
古斯塔夫校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Beset, beleaguer, sit, invest
ANT:Abandon, {(Phrase}, {Raise_the_siege)}, Besmear,[See BEDAUB]
校對:史蒂文
解釋/意思:
v.t. to lay siege to: to beset with armed forces: to throng round.—n. Besieg′er.—adv. Besieg′ingly (rare) urgently.
哈迪編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- As I hoped in the end to besiege Vicksburg I must first destroy all possibility of aid. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- They did not sit down to be besieged while the mutineers organized and gathered prestige; that would have lost them India for ever. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And now, the sea, late our defence, seems our prison bound; hemmed in by its gulphs, we shall die like the famished inhabitants of a besieged town. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- We are regularly besieged. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- This the Romans besieged, and a period of trench warfare ensued. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The position occupied by the Army of the Cumberland had been made very strong for defence during the months it had been besieged. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Hooker's position in Lookout Valley was absolutely essential to us so long as Chattanooga was besieged. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Of course we were besieged by a rabble of muscular Egyptians and Arabs who wanted the contract of dragging us to the top--all tourists are. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Richmond was fortified and intrenched so perfectly that one man inside to defend was more than equal to five outside besieging or assaulting. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- We were now looking west, besieging Pemberton, while we were also looking east to defend ourselves against an expected siege by Johnston. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- They did so, and the besieging party grew noisy and more and more abusive as the fact became apparent (to them) that our men were afraid to come out. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- They had shut up the inhabitants of a village and a Turkish garrison in an old fort near Jericho, and were besieging them. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- We were, for the time, practically two armies besieging. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
巴雷特校對