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beleaguered

/bih-lee-gerd/US // bɪˈli gərd //

陷入困境,陷入困境的,被围困的,被围困

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : surrounded by military forces; besieged: The beleaguered city of Limerick, having stood to the last, finally capitulated to the forces of William of Orange.
    • : beset, surrounded, or overburdened by troubles: Restoring our beleaguered oceans to health will require an emphasis on diversification and conservation, and more sensible fishing practices.

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Examples

  • The beleaguered electric vehicle startup is now being investigated by the Department of Justice, in addition to an ongoing investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

  • With the federal government absent, it’s beleaguered state lawmakers versus a billion-dollar incentive to chase THC.

  • Hazaras have long faced discrimination and persecution in Afghanistan, and a renewed fear grips Farkhondeh’s increasingly victimized and beleaguered community.

  • The most the Mets have managed to do is excite their beleaguered fan base at times with flashes of potential … only to immediately dash those hopes in increasingly farcical ways.

  • The early run support allowed Washington’s beleaguered bullpen a bit of room for error, but the combination of Tanner Rainey, Daniel Hudson and Austin Voth backed Corbin’s start with two scoreless innings.

  • Lohse and his beleaguered fellow pledges were, he claims, forced to chug vinegar and to dine on the dreaded “vomlet.”

  • At the time, last March, the then-46-year-old Omidyar was being heralded as a patron saint of the financially beleaguered newsbiz.

  • Outgunned and beleaguered, he says, Iraqi army units in Anbar are beginning to collapse.

  • Having finally re-joined the main body of the Ukrainian forces, the beleaguered defenders of Sector D were evacuated.

  • Taken together, it gives them a huge tactical advantage over the beleaguered Ukrainian armed forces.

  • Groups of hundreds of non-combatants were hurrying off from the beleaguered insurgent capital.

  • Thus the sun set on Rome beleaguered, the barbarians outside the City.

  • In the meantime the risen sun has burned a way through the fog, splendoring a part of the beleaguered city.

  • At last she was on her way to the relief of the beleaguered city; there was no room for misgiving in her faithful heart.

  • He defeated the enemy and carried away the beleaguered garrison with all the women and children.