crusade
noun /kruːˈseɪd/
/kruːˈseɪd/
- crusade (for/against something) | crusade (to do something) a long and determined effort to achieve something that you believe to be right or to stop something that you believe to be wrong
（长期坚定不移的）斗争，运动 - to lead a crusade against crime
领导打击犯罪活动的运动 - Her moral crusade began in 1963.
她那提倡道德的运动始于1963年。 - a crusade to give terminally ill people the right to die
赋予绝症患者死亡权利的运动
- For 23 years he led a crusade for peace.
他领导了一场长达 23 年的和平运动。 - He is on a crusade to take the church to the people.
他在从事一项向民众传教的工作。 - She seems to be carrying out a personal crusade to stop this building work.
她似乎在开展一场个人圣战来阻止这项建筑工程。 - The book urges parents to join a crusade against crime.
该书极力主张父母参加打击犯罪的运动。 - The charity tonight launched its great crusade against homelessness.
今晚这家慈善机构发起了援助无家可归者的大型活动。 - He led a crusade to give terminally ill people the right to die.
他领导了一场给予末期病人死亡权利的运动。 - We must continue the crusade against crime.
我们必须继续打击犯罪。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- great
- holy
- moral
- …
- embark on
- launch
- mount
- …
- on a crusade
- crusade against
- crusade for
- …
- to lead a crusade against crime
- (sometimes Crusade)any of the wars fought in Palestine by European Christian countries against the Muslims in the Middle Ages
（中世纪的）十字军东征 CultureThe Crusades were a series of military expeditions between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries, in which armies from the Christian countries of Europe tried to get back the Holy Land (= the area that is now Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Egypt) from the Muslims. The soldiers who took part in the Crusades were called Crusaders. The best-known British Crusader was King Richard I. The Crusades achieved very little, but as a result of them new ideas were exchanged, trade was improved, and new goods such as sugar and cotton came to Europe for the first time.Topics Historyc2, War and conflictc2Collocations Dictionaryadjective- great
- holy
- moral
- …
- embark on
- launch
- mount
- …
- on a crusade
- crusade against
- crusade for
- …
词源late 16th cent. (originally as croisade): from French croisade, an alteration (influenced by Spanish cruzado) of earlier croisée, literally ‘the state of being marked with the cross’, based on Latin crux, cruc- ‘cross’; in the 17th cent. the form crusado, from Spanish cruzado, was introduced. The blending of these two forms led to the current spelling, first recorded in the early 18th cent.