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单词 assail
释义
assail
verb
formal
uk
/əˈseɪl/us
/əˈseɪl/
[T]
toattacksomeoneviolentlyorcriticizesomeonestrongly:
攻击，袭击；抨击
Thevictimhad been assailedwithrepeatedblowsto theheadandbody.受害者的头部和身体遭到连续重击。
He was assailedwithinsultsandabuseas heleftthecourt.他离开法庭时，遭到众人的辱骂。
[Toften passive]
tocausesomeone toexperiencea lot ofunpleasantthings:
困扰；使苦恼
to be assailedbydoubts/fears/problems为疑虑／恐惧／问题所困扰
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(Definition ofassailfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

assail| American Dictionary

assail
verb[T]
us
/əˈseɪl/
tocriticizesomething or someonestrongly, or tocausesomeone toexperienceunpleasantthoughtsorfeelings:
Manyparentsassailed theproposaltolengthentheschoolday.
After thedecisiontoquithisjob, he was assailed bydoubts.
(Definition ofassailfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofassail

assail
He also assails the notion that the ability to recite details of the parliamentary procedure has much to do with the political awareness.
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Liberals continued toassailthe regressive financing, while conservatives worried that these taxes would bankroll an unchecked expansion of government.
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Such an ideological pincer movement cannot easily be assailed with the common sense of policy making.
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The author assails the publication of company-sponsored meta-analyses, which prohibit independent analysis of data.
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Under this scenario, the worth of their patent will be useless if it is assailed by an aggressive black market.
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Such assumptions are assailed as idealistic and static.
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In the ' ' culture wars ' ' of the 1980s, the multicultural approach was assailed for exaggerating racial and ethnic differences and thereby undermining common bonds.
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With the apparent complicity of the authorities, women were threatened, assailed and harassed into compliance.
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Once the economy's lifeblood, the industry is now assailed by the effects of trade liberalisation and threatened loss of protection in an increasingly competitive global commodity market.
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Over the century, the baker's guild was assailed with growing venom as an anti-social racket restricting admissions to the trade, monopolizing custom, pushing prices up, and making fortunes.
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Further, such a creature might have a keen sense of smell, and be able to discriminate between thousands of categorically different smells assailing its smell organ.
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He is quiet and decent and is an anchor in the storms which have assailed his home.
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It was assailed by him no more bitterly in the past than it was assailed by him to-night.
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I cannot see why we should be assailed by sales talk of a foreign kind.
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He is assailed by contradictory advice from all sides.
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