badgers

英 [ˈbædʒəz]

美 [ˈbædʒərz]

n.  獾(挖洞居住，夜间活动)
v.  纠缠，烦扰(反复提出问题或要求)
badger的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• 獾
  Abadgeris a wild animal which has a white head with two wide black stripes on it. Badgers live underground and usually come up to feed at night.
• VERB 纠缠；烦扰；对…软磨硬泡
  If youbadgersomeone, you repeatedly tell them to do something or repeatedly ask them questions.
  1. She badgered her doctor time and again, pleading with him to do something...
     她屡屡缠着她的医生不放，求他做点什么。
  2. They kept phoning and writing, badgering me to go back...
     他们不停地给我打电话、写信，软磨硬泡要我回去。
  3. Richard's mother badgered him into taking a Spanish wife.
     理查德的母亲磨破嘴皮子，终于说服他娶了个西班牙太太。

双语例句

• Why have badgers been singled out as culprits?
  为何唯独把獾说成是罪魁祸首？
• One thing I can say is that you'll have fun with the responsibilities of eldercare if you enjoy running the high hurdles while juggling angry badgers.
  我能说的一件事是如果你是一个喜欢跨高栏同时用愤怒的獾耍杂技，那么你将会对老年人照顾中获得乐趣。
• Terrestrial carnivores; having toes separated to the base: dogs; cats; bears; badgers; raccoons.
  陆栖食肉动物；脚趾在根部分裂开：；狗；猫；熊；獾；浣熊。
• Do the badgers get stuck?
  美洲獾会被卡在溜滑梯吗？
• Badgers know where their strength lies, do we?
  沙番知道它的力量来自哪里，我们呢？
• There was a possibility Badgers Creek could come under ember attack with increased smoke and fire activity but it didn't happen.
  有可能獾溪下余烬可能会攻击增加烟火活动，但它并没有发生。
• Two things, he says:'First, it becomes harder to respect and enforce the boundaries that shape a child's character, so he simply badgers his parents until he gets his way.
  首先，如此行事很难尊重并巩固那些对孩子性格起到塑造作用的界限，在这种情况下孩子为了达到自己的目的会一直缠着父母不放。
• My daughter always badgers me with questions.
  我的女儿缠着我问问题。
• There have forest in Mundon, some badgers live in the forest beside river.
  莫顿园区有大片的树林，河边附近的树林中，有獾居住。
• Badgers are widespread in Britain but are most common in the South West, rare in East Anglia and thinly distributed in Scotland.
  獾广泛地分布在英国各地，西南部最为普遍，英格兰东部和苏格兰地区只有少量分布。