boycott
verb /ˈbɔɪkɒt/
/ˈbɔɪkɑːt/
动词形式
| present simple I / you / we / they boycott | /ˈbɔɪkɒt/ /ˈbɔɪkɑːt/ |
| he / she / it boycotts | /ˈbɔɪkɒts/ /ˈbɔɪkɑːts/ |
| past simple boycotted | /ˈbɔɪkɒtɪd/ /ˈbɔɪkɑːtɪd/ |
| past participle boycotted | /ˈbɔɪkɒtɪd/ /ˈbɔɪkɑːtɪd/ |
| -ing form boycotting | /ˈbɔɪkɒtɪŋ/ /ˈbɔɪkɑːtɪŋ/ |
- boycott something to refuse to buy, use or take part in something as a way of protesting
拒绝购买（或使用、参加）；抵制 - We are asking people to boycott goods from companies that use child labour.
我们正呼吁大家抵制雇用童工的公司的产品。 - They have urged people to boycott foreign products.
他们敦促大家抵制外国产品。
Collocations Dictionaryverb + boycott- threaten to
- call on somebody to
- urge somebody to
- …
词源from the name of Captain Charles C. Boycott (1832–97), an Irish land agent treated in this way in 1880, in an attempt instigated by the Irish Land League to get rents reduced. - We are asking people to boycott goods from companies that use child labour.