pester
pester 英 [ˈpestə(r)] 美 [ˈpɛstɚ]
vt. 纠缠，烦扰
进行时:pestering 过去式:pestered 过去分词:pestered 第三人称单数:pesters
- To pester someone is to annoyingly nag them about something. Pestering is repetitive and bothersome.
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- vt. 纠缠，烦扰
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1. Journalists pestered neighbours for information.
记者缠着邻居打听消息。
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2. He has been pestering her with phone calls for over a week.
他打电话骚扰她有一个多星期了。
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3. The horses were continually pestered by flies.
马不断地被苍蝇叮咬。
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4. The kids kept pestering me to read to them.
孩子们老缠着我给他们读故事书。
- pester (v.) 1520s, "to clog, entangle, encumber," probably a shortening of Middle French empestrer "place in an embarrassing situation" (Modern French empêtrer, Walloon epasturer), from Vulgar Latin *impastoriare "to hobble" (an animal), from Latin im- "in" + Medieval Latin pastoria (chorda) "(rope) to hobble an animal," from Latin pastoria, fem. of pastorius "of a herdsman," from pastor "herdsman" (see pastor (n.)). Sense of "annoy, trouble" (1560s) is from influence of pest. Related: Pestered; pestering.
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