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badgering

/baj-er/US // ˈbædʒ ər //UK // (ˈbædʒə) //

劝说,劝告,纠缠不休,纠缠不清

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
    • : the fur of this mammal.
    • : Australian. a wombat.bandicoot.
    • : a native or inhabitant of Wisconsin .
    • : a swablike device for cleaning excess mortar from the interiors of newly laid tile drains.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to harass or urge persistently; pester; nag: I had to badger him into coming with us.

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Examples

  • And there are certainly men who are forceful without being badgering.

  • At that time Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee were badgering her about legislating from the bench.

  • CNN's John King: He was so annoying and such a badgering presence on stage that I wondered if he was running for president too.

  • The people are very unsettled, thanks to this disputed boundary question, and the badgering of the Natal Government.

  • But that can be no possible reason for badgering the life out of his father's widow twenty years after his father's death!

  • Go, and sit, and look sheepish, and sing hymns with the people I've been badgering; and everybody seeing me!

  • Abdul Kerim escaped with a slight reprimand, but I afterwards heard the other men badgering him.

  • There was more of this pleading and emotional badgering until finally out of sheer exhaustion Angela said yes.