| 词汇 | hounding |
| 释义 | hounding present participle ofhound hound verb[ T ] uk /haʊnd/ us /haʊnd/ to chase someone or to refuse to leave someone alone, especially because you want to get something from them: 追赶;（不停地）烦扰 The reporters wouldn't stop hounding her.记者们不停地烦扰她。 Synonym harass Causing feelings of anger and displeasure aggravate aggrieve alienate anger annoy bend go too faridiom goat grate hack someone off harass joke nark nose rub someone up the wrong wayidiom ruffle ruffle someone's feathersidiom set someone's teeth on edgeidiom step/tread on someone's toesidiom tit You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Pursuing Phrasal verbhound someone out Examples of houndinghounding In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. There is not only a lack of sympathy, but an active programme of employers hounding people out of work if they have the illness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are no more hounding down the woman than you are hounding down the man. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Much has been said today about landlords hounding people out because of improvement grants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not one of those who from the beginning of the war have been hounding at aliens as aliens. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nor do we wish to conjure up a vision of an irate park keeper hounding the general public. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My daughter's education was ruined because of the hounding that she received at school. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There was no story, but that did not stop the newspaper and its reporters hounding my assistant, her husband and her relatives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some people may make £10 from social security while an army of inspectors is hounding women who are supposed to have been cohabiting. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Instead, they are harassing, persecuting and hounding the unemployed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would outlaw the so-called sports of fox, hare and deer hunting, which involve hounding animals to exhaustion and death. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Certainly we think that it would be more fruitful to explore that area than to spend the money hounding poor people on social security. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are pursuing the same partisan cry now, and have been hounding us on for this measure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 First, it has shown an extraordinary combination of dilatoriness with a ferocious persistence in hounding the firm. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should then be held, no doubt, to be hounding that man so that he was unable to live down his past, and so on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it wise to risk hounding this animal out of existence? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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