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词汇 hector
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hector

verb
/ˈhektə(r)/
/ˈhektər/
(formal)
动词形式
present simple I / you / we / they hector
/ˈhektə(r)/
/ˈhektər/
he / she / it hectors
/ˈhektəz/
/ˈhektərz/
past simple hectored
/ˈhektəd/
/ˈhektərd/
past participle hectored
/ˈhektəd/
/ˈhektərd/
-ing form hectoring
/ˈhektərɪŋ/
/ˈhektərɪŋ/
  1. hector somebody | + speech to try to make somebody do something by talking or behaving in an aggressive way威逼;威吓
    • Unlike most environmentalists, she doesn't hector us about giving things up.和大多数环保主义者不同,她不会威逼我们放弃某些事物。
    • Countries are tired of being hectored by Western leaders about industrial emissions.各国厌倦了西方领导人对工业排放的威吓。
    • Teachers are feeling pushed around, hectored, lectured and badgered.老师们感到被推来推去,被威吓,被说教,被纠缠。
    synonym bully
    词源late Middle English: from the Trojan warrior Hector. Originally denoting a hero, the sense later became ‘braggart or bully’ (applied in the late 17th cent. to a member of a gang of London youths), hence ‘talk to in a bullying way’.
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