| 词汇 | assail |
| 释义 | assail verb formaluk /əˈseɪl/ us /əˈseɪl/ [ T ] to attack someone violently or criticize someone strongly: 攻击，袭击;抨击 The victim had been assailed with repeated blows to the head and body.受害者的头部和身体遭到连续重击。 He was assailed with insults and abuse as he left the court.他离开法庭时，遭到众人的辱骂。 [ Toften passive ] to cause someone to experience a lot of unpleasant things: 困扰；使苦恼 to be assailed by doubts/fears/problems为疑虑／恐惧／问题所困扰 Disapproving & criticizing anathematize animadversion aspersion aw backbite barrel bash belabour boo disapprobation knock knocker let someone have both barrelsidiom low blow mordacious mordancy pile slam there you goidiom union-basher You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Occurring and happening assail | American Dictionaryassail verb[ T ] us/əˈseɪl/ to criticize something or someone strongly, or to cause someone to experience unpleasant thoughts or feelings: Many parents assailed the proposal to lengthen the school day. After the decision to quit his job, he was assailed by doubts. Examples of assailassail He also assails the notion that the ability to recite details of the parliamentary procedure has much to do with the political awareness. Liberals continued to assail the regressive financing, while conservatives worried that these taxes would bankroll an unchecked expansion of government. Such an ideological pincer movement cannot easily be assailed with the common sense of policy making. The author assails the publication of company-sponsored meta-analyses, which prohibit independent analysis of data. Under this scenario, the worth of their patent will be useless if it is assailed by an aggressive black market. Such assumptions are assailed as idealistic and static. In the ' ' culture wars ' ' of the 1980s, the multicultural approach was assailed for exaggerating racial and ethnic differences and thereby undermining common bonds. With the apparent complicity of the authorities, women were threatened, assailed and harassed into compliance. Once the economy's lifeblood, the industry is now assailed by the effects of trade liberalisation and threatened loss of protection in an increasingly competitive global commodity market. Over the century, the baker's guild was assailed with growing venom as an anti-social racket restricting admissions to the trade, monopolizing custom, pushing prices up, and making fortunes. Further, such a creature might have a keen sense of smell, and be able to discriminate between thousands of categorically different smells assailing its smell organ. He is quiet and decent and is an anchor in the storms which have assailed his home. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was assailed by him no more bitterly in the past than it was assailed by him to-night. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I cannot see why we should be assailed by sales talk of a foreign kind. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is assailed by contradictory advice from all sides. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of assail These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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