assail

英語

詞源

源自中古英語 assailen，源自古法語 assaillir, assalir，源自晚期拉丁語 assalīre，源自拉丁語 ad (「向」) + salīre (「跳」)。見assault。

發音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /əˈseɪl/

  • 音頻 (南英格蘭)：

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• 韻部：-eɪl
• 同音詞：asail

動詞

assail (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 assails，現在分詞 assailing，一般過去時及過去分詞 assailed)

1. (及物) 攻擊，襲擊 （亦比喻義）；困擾

   Muggers assailed them as they entered an alley.

   他們進小巷以後被強盜襲擊了。

   Our ears were assailed by her joyous efforts on her new saxophone.

   她津津樂道地講她的薩克斯怎麼樣怎麼樣，說得我們都煩了。

   • 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 頁s:

     With greedy force he gan the fort assayle,
     Whereof he weend possesse soone to bee,
     And win rich spoile of ransackt chastitee.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

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   • 1897, Saki, 「The Story-teller」, 出自 Beasts and Super-beasts‎^[1], London: John Lane, 出版於 1914，第 238 頁:

     “ […] for the next six months or so those children will assail her in public with demands for an improper story!”

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

   • 1942, Zora Neale Hurston, 章號 14, 出自 Dust Tracks on a Road‎^[2], New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 出版於 1969，第 258 頁:

     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.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

   • 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.

衍生詞彙

• assailable
• assailant
• assailer
• assailment
• reassail
• unassailability
• unassailed
• unassailed
• unassailing

 

相關詞彙

• assault

異序詞

• Alissa