[N-COUNT 可数名词](长期坚定不移的)斗争,运动 A crusade is a long and determined attempt to achieve something for a cause that you feel strongly about.
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Footballers launched an unprecedented crusade against racism on the terraces...
足球运动员们对阶梯看台上的种族歧视发起了一场空前的运动。
He made it his crusade to teach children to love books.
他把教孩子们热爱读书当做自己的使命。
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[VERB 动词]长期坚定不移地奋斗 If you crusade for a particular cause, you make a long and determined effort to achieve something for it.
[V against/for n]
[V-ing]
...a newspaper that has crusaded against the country's cocaine traffickers.
坚决抨击该国可卡因毒贩的报纸
...an adopted boy whose cause is taken up by a crusading lawyer.
由一位执著坚定的律师受理其诉讼案件的被收养男孩
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[N-PROPER-PLURAL 专有复数名词](发生于11世纪至13世纪的)十字军东征The Crusades were the wars that were fought by Christians in Palestine against the Muslims during the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries.
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cru·sade/kruːˈseɪd; NAmEkruːˈseɪd/
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crusadecrusadescrusadedcrusadingnoun1crusade(for/against sth) |crusade(to do sth) a long and determined effort to achieve sth that you believe to be right or to stop sth that you believe to be wrong (长期坚定不移的)斗争,运动SYN
campaign
◆to lead a crusade against crime领导打击犯罪活动的运动◆a moral crusade提倡道德的运动2(sometimesCrusade )any of the wars fought in Palestine by European Christian countries against the Muslims in the Middle Ages (中世纪的)十字军东征verb[intransitive ]to make a long and determined effort to achieve sth that you believe to be right or to stop sth you believe to be wrong 长期坚定不移地奋斗SYN
campaign
cru·sade/kruːˈseɪd; NAmEkruːˈseɪd/
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crusade1 noun
crusade2 verb
crusadecru‧sade1 /kruːˈseɪd/ ●○○ noun [countable]
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1a determined attempt to change something because you think you are morally right → campaigncrusade against/for He seems to be running a one-man crusade against cigarette smoking.2 (also Crusade) one of a series of wars fought in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries by Christian armies trying to take Palestine from the Muslims
crusade1 noun
crusade2 verb
crusadecrusade2 verb [intransitive]
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to take part in a crusadeSYN campaigncrusade against/for He continued to crusade for free education for all.—crusader noun [countable]
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