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***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

• Threats to the states led the pope to call for future crusades.
  由于这些国家受到威胁，导致后来教宗又发起几次十字军东征。
• 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。
• Europe lost the wars of the Crusades.
  欧洲人发动的十字军东征以失败告终。
• 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。
• The crusades were essentially the product of their time, bound up with the medieval way of life, especially with feudalism.
  十字军基本上是时代的产物，它受到中世纪生活方式尤其是封建主义的约束。
• 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。
• 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。
• He had within his reach his pistols and carbine, and Ali, standing near him, held one of the small Arabian hatchets, whose form has not varied since the Crusades.
  手枪和马枪就在他的身边，阿里站在他的附近，手里握着一把那种自十字军以来从未改变过式样的阿拉伯小斧头。
• Geoffrey Chaucer was born some hundred years after the last war of the Crusades, in the early part of the Renaissance.
  十字军东征最后的一场战争之后几百年，杰弗里•乔叟出生，那时正是文艺复兴的早期。