| 词汇 | pestering |
| 释义 | pestering present participle ofpester pester verb[ T ] uk /ˈpes.tər/ us /ˈpes.tɚ/ to behave in an annoying manner towards someone by doing or asking for something repeatedly: 不断烦扰，纠缠 At the frontier, there were people pestering tourists for cigarettes, food, or alcohol.在边境，有人不断纠缠游客，索要香烟、食品或酒。 [ + to infinitive ]John has been pestering her to go out with him all month.整个月以来，约翰一直缠着要和她约会。 Synonyms annoy badger bug(ANNOY)informal 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: Making appeals & requests Pursuing Examples of pesteringpestering In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. He accused me of pestering and badgering him for the last three years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But there may be a large number of debts which ought to be paid and the creditors may be pestering him. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let these people get their coal not by begging or pestering for it but as a right. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In practice, the legislation is a charter for pestering employers, who will have to give refusal letters to all the claimants who contact them direct. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Those which are pestering us at the moment will be with us for many years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have been pestering the factor, the local authority, all responsible authorities, to make the houses more habitable, but nothing has been done yet. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 While they will welcome any information given to them, they are quite able to discourage the pestering for votes in the way of canvassing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is that not why they have not been pestering him with demands to bring in that outrageous system? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we can produce new material, as we are trying to do, we shall be pestering him again. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think there is much doubt that there was pestering. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Without pestering and intrusiveness, we should help to reverse the decline in public knowledge. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I understand that one of them was that these bands receive no direct payment and that they were unduly pestering the passengers for gifts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She has been pestering everybody she can, including the local authority, and advertising. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This appears to be the sort of stockade that is set up to prevent anyone from pestering the boss. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Although that is a well-known fact, it was still difficult to make others see that this is not about pestering lorries. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English 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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