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

• 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。
• 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 beggars pestered the tourists for money.
  乞丐们纠缠游客要钱。
• Everyone pestered me so much that I gave it up.
  每个人都跟我纠缠不休，我只得放弃了。
• After a regretful incident with the family dog, who had pestered him for so long, Sangha end up in the private zoo of His Excellency, an unspecified member of local Royalty.
  Sangha在和主人家烦扰它已久的狗发生了一次不愉快之后，被送到了一位地方皇族的私人苑囿。
• The child pestered his mother for money.
  孩子蘑菇着向母亲要钱。
• They pestered us for money.
  他们缠住我们要钱。
• For I was pestered with mosquitoes all night.
  蚊子骚扰了我一夜。
• He pestered me to help.
  他讨厌地缠着我要我帮助。
• 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。