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beleaguer

/bih-lee-ger/US // bɪˈli gər //UK // (bɪˈliːɡə) //

蓓乐格,蓓蕾格尔,蓓丽格,蓓蕾格

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to surround with military forces.
    • : to surround or beset, as with troubles.

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Examples

  • It comes obviously from a sense of people’s own histories of being beleaguered and having their dignity removed.

  • A lack of chips, computer not tortilla, is wreaking havoc on the already beleaguered restaurant and bar industry, the latest victim of a pandemic-induced worldwide shortage that has disrupted the manufacturing of smartphones, cars and more.

  • IRS staffingTaxpayers will face more frustration because the IRS workforce is beleaguered.

  • And yet I cannot think that any Scottish or French rovers could land in such force as to beleaguer the fortalice.

  • Somehow that seemed to make her matter less, and Dodo had not at present made any determined effort to beleaguer her.

  • For Edward took his army to beleaguer Calais, and after blockading it for nearly a year forced it to surrender.

  • The bold beleaguer'd post the hero gains, And the hard siege with various fate sustains.

  • In his tragedy of Ezelino, after the tyrant's downfall, a captain is sent to beleaguer Treviso, and reduce Ezelino's garrison.