assail
英语
编辑词源
编辑源自中古英语 assailen，源自古法语 assaillir, assalir，源自晚期拉丁语 assalīre，源自拉丁语 ad (“向”) + salīre (“跳”)。见assault。
发音
编辑动词
编辑assail (第三人称单数简单现在时 assails，现在分词 assailing，一般过去时及过去分词 assailed)
- (及物) 攻击，袭击 （亦比喻义）；困扰
- Muggers assailed them as they entered an alley.
- 他们进小巷以后被强盗袭击了。
- Our ears were assailed by her joyous efforts on her new saxophone.
- 她津津乐道地讲她的萨克斯怎么样怎么样，说得我们都烦了。
- 1590, 埃德蒙·斯宾塞, “Book I, Canto VI”, 出自 仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]）, London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC，第 76-77 页s:
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- 1942, Zora Neale Hurston, 章号 14, 出自 Dust Tracks on a Road[2], New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 出版于 1969，第 258 页:
- We got married immediately after I finished my work […] which should have been the happiest day of my life. […] ¶ But, it was not my happiest day. I was assailed by doubts.
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- 2007, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Wizard of the Crow, Nairobo: East African Educational Publishers, Book 2, Chapter 3, p. 64,[3]
- He did not like being in crowds, foul smells galore assailing his nostrils.