belabor
英 [b?'leb?]
美
- vt. 痛打；抨擊；過度說明；反復討論
GRE
詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?belabors;過去式:?belabored;過去分詞:?belabored;現在分詞:?belaboring;
中文詞源
belabor 一再強調
前綴be-, 強調。labor, 勞動，努力。即努力爭取的，反復強調的。
英文詞源
- belabor (v.)
- 1590s, "to exert one's strength upon," from be- + labor (v.). But figurative sense of "assail with words" is attested somewhat earlier (1590s); and belabored is attested from mid-15c. with a sense of "tilled, cultivated."
雙語例句
- 1. Don't belabor the point.
- 別再羅嗦這事兒了.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. He seems to be looking for a man of straw to belabor.
- 他看來在找一個假想的敵人來加以痛打。
來自辭典例句