pestered

英 [ˈpestəd]

美 [ˈpestərd]

v.  打扰; 纠缠; 烦扰
pester的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 不断打扰；纠缠；烦扰
  If you say that someoneis pesteringyou, you mean that they keep asking you to do something, or keep talking to you, and you find this annoying.
  1. I thought she'd stop pestering me, but it only seemed to make her worse...
     我原以为她会停止纠缠我，但结果她似乎是变本加厉了。
  2. I know he gets fed up with people pestering him for money.
     我知道他烦透了那些缠着他要钱的人。
  3. ...that creep who's been pestering you to go out with him.
     那个一直缠着要约你出去的讨厌家伙

英英释义

adj

• troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances
  1. harassed working mothers
  2. a harried expression
  3. her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions
  4. the vexed parents of an unruly teenager
  Synonym:annoyedharassedharriedvexed

双语例句

• The famous singers leaving the theatre had the life pestered out of them by youngsters asking for autographs.
  这些著名歌星离开剧场时，给要求签名的青少年纠缠得不亦乐乎。
• Listed companies is rapidly increasing, it is not easy pestered beyond endurance for investors to understand the stock one by one.
  上市公司急速增加，投资者要想了解每一种股票是极不容易的，也不胜其烦。
• Most grown men and women are pestered by their families to return home before sundown-the unspoken civil curfew.
  因为那个虽没有公开宣布，但实际存在的宵禁，大多数成年男女都被家里人再三叮嘱要在日落前回家。
• The light changed and they drove on, but Hannah was too young to be reasonable. She pestered her parents about inequity, insisting that she wanted to do something.
  红灯变绿了，他们继续上路，但小汉娜还是不懂事的缠着父母，她觉得这件事很不公平，并坚持要为那个可怜的人做些什么。
• We ignored him, so he went to our supervisor and pestered her.
  我们都没理他，后来他又跑过来一直缠着我们老师。
• Thus, she pestered her parents with questions, and their answers aroused her immense interest in China, which was to her, an ancient country shrouded in mystery.
  小小的李佳心中产生了疑惑，于是就缠着父母问这问那，他们的答案，引起了她对中国的极大兴趣，对这个古老而又神秘的国家充满了向往、好奇。
• The little girl pestered the travelers for money.
  那个小女孩缠着游客要钱。
• She coaxed and pestered her father until she got his consent.
  她软磨硬泡，终于让父亲点了头。
• The beggars pestered the tourists for money.
  乞丐们纠缠游客要钱。
• We were pestered with flies.
  我们让苍绳烦透了。