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crusade

/kroo-seyd/US // kruˈseɪd //UK // (kruːˈseɪd) //

讨伐,讨伐行动,讨伐活动,讨伐运动

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Often Crusade . any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
    • : any war carried on under papal sanction.
    • : any vigorous, aggressive movement for the defense or advancement of an idea, cause, etc.: a crusade against child abuse.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    cru·sad·ed, cru·sad·ing.

    • : to go on or engage in a crusade.

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Examples

  • Within those strictures, Khan has channeled much of his energy into cleaning up London’s highly polluted air, through a bold crusade to reduce car traffic and improve vehicle standards.

  • Thus launches a crusade, one that is nearly derailed at every turn by the toxicity of Sheila’s inner monologue and her propensity for self-destruction.

  • Thiel said that immediately after speaking with Salmon she decided to take her crusade public.

  • What is needed is not a general and blunt crusade against the police but reforms and resources to professionalize these forces, while demanding real accountability to those who abuse their power.

  • Apple, of course, is on its own solitary crusade against third-party cookies and other cross-site tracking techniques.

  • The main article called Reflections on the Final Crusade outlines in prophetic terms just how ISIS will crush Christianity.

  • The Harvard 28 join other liberal and feminist dissenters from the campus anti-rape crusade.

  • Much of the fervor for war in 1860 was driven by a moral crusade against slavery.

  • In this way, the U.S. would avoid the trap of being viewed, once again, as the leader of an anti-Islamic crusade.

  • A crusade is based on the spirit of the people, and the will of volunteers.

  • First, he begged for the usual indulgences necessary to enable him to fulfil his vow to go on a crusade.

  • The memory of the terrible crusade in the thirteenth century inspired fiery poems among them.

  • There was, in fact, a crusade against toll-gates commenced during this year, in almost every part of South Wales.

  • If Valmond were in very truth a Napoleon, all might be well, though this crusade must close here.

  • And must she run, despite the tears And prayers of eighteen hundred years,A-muck in Slavery's crusade?

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