英语单词 | badger |
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英美音标 | ['bædʒə(r)] |
中文释义 | n.獾,獾皮毛 vt.迫使(某人吐露实话),诱使(某人暴露自己) |
vocabulary简明 | Badger is to bother. Persistently. On and on. Without stop. Relentlessly. Over and over. Endlessly. It comes from the name of that chipmunk-like animal that burrows into the ground. |
vocabulary扩展 | If you badger someone, you get under their skin. A badger is an animal that digs tunnels under ground to keep warm. To badger can also mean to persuade someone through constant annoying efforts. You might badger your mom to add another hour to your curfew or badger your friend to give you a turn with a video game he has been hogging. |
柯林斯星级 | ★☆☆☆☆ |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]獾 A badger is a wild animal which has a white head with two wide black stripes on it. Badgers live underground and usually come up to feed at night. 2 [VERB 动词]纠缠;烦扰;对…软磨硬泡 If you badger someone, you repeatedly tell them to do something or repeatedly ask them questions. [V n] [V n to-inf] [V n
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