| 词汇 | besieged |
| 释义 | besieged past simple and past participle ofbesiege besiege verb[ Toften passive ] uk /bɪˈsiːdʒ/ us /bɪˈsiːdʒ/ to surround a place, especially with an army, to prevent people or supplies getting in or out: 围攻;围困 The town had been besieged for two months but still resisted the aggressors.该城虽已被围困了两个月，但仍然把侵略者拒之城外。 When someone is besieged, a lot of people surround them: 围住;拥在…周围 When the pop star tried to leave her hotel, she was besieged by waiting journalists and fans.那名流行歌星试图离开酒店时，被一群等候在外的记者和歌迷围住了。 to make many requests or complaints about something: 烦扰;使应接不暇 After showing the controversial documentary, the channel was besieged with phone calls from angry viewers.在播放了一部有争议的纪录片之后，这家电视台就不断收到愤怒的观众的电话。 Attacking & invading advance guard aggressor ambush beleaguer beleaguered besiege blitz cyberbullying cyberwarfare declare war on someone/something false flag full-frontal assault hit and run pincer movement post-attack post-conquest pre-emption privateer surgical strike swoop You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Enclosing, surrounding and immersing Making appeals & requests Complaining Examples of besiegedbesieged In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. In concert, they besieged the municipal offices to demand reimbursement in cash and threatened to withdraw their labour if this was not conceded. It begins with a defense of the very enterprise of economic methodology, which is besieged on two different fronts. Everybody asked to go to the city, so that the centre of the dominant bureaucracy and aristocracy could be besieged. Furthermore, in competitive races, candidates may be besieged by larger numbers of interested and engaged activists. As the noon prayer concluded, he was besieged by a swarm of "the poor, beggars, and women" who were hoping for alms. Bureaucrats find themselves besieged with requests they no longer have either the official authority or the personal financial means to fulfil. And for learners, who sometimes must feel besieged by their mistakes and failings, this is no small thing. When besieged, they put military survival ahead of civilian protection. Consider a society besieged by rising crime rates. The anniversary sermon extolled her virtues, poverty and constant battle against the devil and moved churchgoers to tears, many of whom besieged the nuns for her relics. They are the last of the besieged. Perhaps it is because of its implication in the besieged, but still hegemonic construction of gender that the fantasies surrounding concealment become so extreme, and so inclusive. There are few practices that can rival the genetic engineering of animals as both a symbol of nature besieged and as a catalyst for the mobilization of animal rights protest. Howrah bridge was blocked and the station besieged by continuous crowd. Besieged civilian women consign all evidence of their private selves to the flames in order to inhabit a persona of normative femininity : apolitical, passive, and traditionally literate. 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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