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pester

/pes-ter/US // ˈpɛs tər //UK // (ˈpɛstə) //

纠缠,纠缠不休,纠缠不清,缠扰

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
    • : Obsolete. to overcrowd.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbbother, harass
Forms: pestered, pestering

Examples

  • Bauer has pestered women who challenge him on Twitter, a habit made more noticeable by the fact that he has not handled male critics on the platform so pointedly.

  • Given how quickly I was wolfing books down, I didn’t want to pester my parents to drive me there every other day.

  • We just understood this as another tool to pester with our living situation.

  • “The question of what determines biological diversity has pestered evolutionary biologists ever since Wallace and Darwin came up with their theory of evolution,” Salzburger said.

  • This acceleration in bee-pestered plants is not entirely a surprise.

  • And resist the urge to probe or pester for reassuring answers.

  • Do not continually pester either your companion or the conductor with questions, such as "Where are we now?"

  • Do you want me to pester every office in the government with new inquiries?

  • The Landhofmeisterin continued to pester the Duke to convey her to Frankfort.

  • "No fear, with my old woman to pester me," answered Richard, with a grim relaxing of his features.

  • The next year he became editor-in-chief to the "Pester Lloyd," raising that paper to a high level of excellence.