pestering

英 [ˈpestərɪŋ]

美 [ˈpestərɪŋ]

v.  打扰; 纠缠; 烦扰
pester的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 不断打扰；纠缠；烦扰
  If you say that someoneis pesteringyou, you mean that they keep asking you to do something, or keep talking to you, and you find this annoying.
  1. I thought she'd stop pestering me, but it only seemed to make her worse...
     我原以为她会停止纠缠我，但结果她似乎是变本加厉了。
  2. I know he gets fed up with people pestering him for money.
     我知道他烦透了那些缠着他要钱的人。
  3. ...that creep who's been pestering you to go out with him.
     那个一直缠着要约你出去的讨厌家伙

英英释义

adj

• causing irritation or annoyance
  1. tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork
  2. aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport
  3. found it galling to have to ask permission
  4. an irritating delay
  5. nettlesome paperwork
  6. a pesky mosquito
  7. swarms of pestering gnats
  8. a plaguey newfangled safety catch
  9. a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him
  10. a vexatious child
  11. it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong
  Synonym:annoyingbothersomegallingirritatingnettlesomepeskypestiferousplaguyplagueyteasingvexatiousvexing

双语例句

• I thought she'd stop pestering me, but it only seemed to make her worse
  我原以为她会停止纠缠我，但结果她似乎是变本加厉了。
• I kept pestering my father until he promised to take me to the zoo tomorrow.
  我跟爸爸磨蹭了半天，他才答应明天带我到动物园玩去。
• Suddenly, I was8 years old and pestering my mother for a short hair cut.
  突然，我回忆起当年我8岁时，我纠缠我的母亲来剪短发。
• He's always pestering me to take him with me.
  他一直缠着我带他一块去。
• I'm very thankful that our building doesn't allow them, because the Big Girl would constantly be pestering me about it, if not.
  我所住的地方不允许养宠物。这让我非常感激。因为不然的话“大闺女”总会要不断为此事缠着我。
• Of investment bankers, he says disdainfully: Since they lost all their clients 'money, they have been pestering me to give them mine.
  谈及投资银行家，他轻蔑地说：自打把客户所有的钱都赔光后，他们就一直缠着我把钱给他们管理。
• "Sorry for taking up your time," says the ad, and promptly desists from further pestering.
  “真抱歉占用了您的时间”，广告说，立马停止了继续纠缠。
• Her children are always pestering her to buy tje, sweets.
  她的孩子总是缠着她给他们买糖果。
• He's been pestering me for a date all week.
  他整个星期一直缠着我要跟我约会。
• The stack of unreplied letters are, like a group of haunting ghosts, continually pestering my guilt-loaded soul.
  一叠未回的信，就像一群不散的阴魂，在我罪深孽重的心底幢幢作祟。