| 词汇 | battling |
| 释义 | battling present participle ofbattle battle verb[ I ] uk /ˈbæt.əl/ us /ˈbæt̬.əl/ to fight: 作战，战斗 Police battled with residents in this part of the city for three days.警察与该内城区的居民发生了持续3天的冲突。 For years the two nations battled over territory.多年来两国一直为领土发生冲突。 C2 to try hard to achieve something in a difficult situation: 斗争，奋斗 He had to battle against prejudice to get a job.为找到一份工作他不得不与偏见作斗争。 Her parents battled for the right to be involved in the decision-making.她的家长为获得参与决策的权利而抗争。 We battled with the elements to get the roof fixed.我们顶着恶劣的天气修葺屋顶。 to try to do something tryI'll try to call her again. attemptI have never attempted to run a marathon. endeavourUKEngineers are endeavouring to locate the source of the problem. seekThey sought to reassure the public. battleHe was battling to fix the roof in the rain. striveWith limited resources, they are striving to make the school a better one. They had to battle to save his life. We've battled with the authorities to change the system. I've battled for years to get him promoted. I battled with the wind and the rain to get here! He's always battling with management to get things changed. Fighting armed combat arms array bellicosity blood diamond bloodlessly blow come close to blowsidiom conflict dogfight firefight fracas refight remobilization remobilize scuffle see action send toe tussle You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Trying and making an effort Examples of battlingbattling In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. He provided the media with a human interest angle on politics: he was an approachable politician, an outsider who was battling against entrenched interests. This is a legitimate question, especially given that we are still battling weeds in conventional agriculture after 50 years of herbicide use. The metaphorical framework of battling disease links his concerns about euthanasia (which he opposes) and iatrogenic illness (which he thinks inadequately opposed). The 'greater' jihad entails spiritual warfare, battling those passions of the soul that impede one's cultivation of piety. Or do we see their authors as lone swimmers battling against a ceaseless tide of religious diversity? The presence of three major dictionaries of larger-than-concise size battling it out for market share suggests that the public is now ready for them. But it trains us to respond to tragedy by battling on. They were battling against tremendous odds - the church, the authorities, the landowners and the socialists. Amazingly, neither vessel had suffered any significant damage during the weeks of battling the ice. The two battling rulers stand (probably) on the border between their cities, and their armies are depicted behind them. When you write a dictionary, especially in a field as wide-ranging as law, you're battling your own fallibility. One - the most superficial perhaps - is the curiosity of watching a famous philosopher battling with what is obviously an especially difficult topic, from his theoretical point of view. They knew that the anonymity they enjoyed when battling a debilitated and unmotivated local police would come to an end if a central, suprastructure could track their crimes. Still, these photographs represent a generally unknown photographic record of historical significance representing an era of wooden ships and iron men battling against the ice, now completely vanished. Desperate xenotransplant subjects might find themselves battling against alarmist community groups. 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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