crusades

英 [kruːˈseɪdz]

美 [kruːˈseɪdz]

n.  (长期坚定不移的)斗争，运动; (中世纪的)十字军东征
v.  长期坚定不移地奋斗
crusade的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (长期坚定不移的)斗争，运动
  Acrusadeis a long and determined attempt to achieve something for a cause that you feel strongly about.
  1. Footballers launched an unprecedented crusade against racism on the terraces...
     足球运动员们对阶梯看台上的种族歧视发起了一场空前的运动。
  2. He made it his crusade to teach children to love books.
     他把教孩子们热爱读书当做自己的使命。
• VERB 长期坚定不移地奋斗
  If youcrusadefor a particular cause, you make a long and determined effort to achieve something for it.
  1. ...a newspaper that has crusaded against the country's cocaine traffickers.
     坚决抨击该国可卡因毒贩的报纸
  2. ...an adopted boy whose cause is taken up by a crusading lawyer.
     由一位执著坚定的律师受理其诉讼案件的被收养男孩
• (发生于11世纪至13世纪的)十字军东征
  The Crusadeswere the wars that were fought by Christians in Palestine against the Muslims during the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries.

双语例句

• The Middle East had become known to Europeans during the11th-13th century crusades.
  11至13世纪的十字军东征期间，欧洲人开始对中东有所了解。
• As mayor, he launched a string of crusades.
  在担任纽约市长的时候，他曾推出了一系列改革举措。
• It rests on the assumption that nonwhites need the White Messiah to lead their crusades.
  它建立在非白人需要白人救世主来领导他们的正义之战的臆想之上。
• There had been many significant consumer crusades before Nader.
  在内德之前，已经有了很多重要的消费者维权运动。
• Former territories on the Palestine coast taken by the Christian army during the first of the Crusades.
  第一次十字军东征期间，基督教军队在巴勒斯坦沿岸占领的地区。
• Thoreau's anti-government, anti-tax crusades captured American sentiment, but he never had much of a following.
  虽然梭罗的反政府、反税收运动让美国人拍手叫好，但是他的支持者却屈指可数。
• Think of the crusades and the Inquisition.
  想想十字军和宗教法庭吧。
• They broke through the Moslem defenses and began a long series of wars called the Crusades.
  他们冲破穆斯林人的防线，发动了一系列的战争，人们称之为十字军东征。
• The crusades weakened feudalism, reduced the rule of the church, and made the Italian cities become a superpower to Mediterranean trade.
  十字军东征削弱了封建主义制度，弱化了教会的统治，并使意大利的一些城市成为地中海商业贸易的超级力量。
• He called the Crusades a foolish quest.
  他说十字军东征是愚蠢的行为。