Badger

(noun.) sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere.

(verb.) persuade through constant efforts.

贾尼斯编辑

• Mrs. Badger considers it too yellow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• His opponents tried to badger him in every way they could, and ridicule even his modest statements. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Mrs. Bayham Badger has not the appearance, Miss Summerson, of a lady who has had two former husbands? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I have forgotten to mention--at least I have not mentioned--that Mr. Woodcourt was the same dark young surgeon whom we had met at Mr. Badger's. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Of European reputation, added Mr. Badger in an undertone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Mr. and Mrs. Badger were here yesterday, Richard, said I, and they seemed disposed to think that you had no great liking for the profession. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• And I get too much of Mrs. Bayham Badger's first and second. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Here in Gibraltar he corners these educated British officers and badgers them with braggadocio about America and the wonders she can perform! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Before the death of Queen Victoria, English shop assistants were being badgered to attend evening classes to learn French. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Mr Barnacle dated from a better time, when the country was not so parsimonious and the Circumlocution Office was not so badgered. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• We are quiet here; we don't get badgered here; there's no knocker here, sir, to be hammered at by creditors and bring a man's heart into his mouth. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Which I meantersay, cried Joe, that if you come into my place bull-baiting and badgering me, come out! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.

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