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

• Why do not the police go and chase a few burglars instead of pestering law-abiding citizens about their car tax and dog licence.
  为什么警察不去抓几个盗贼，而老是在汽车税和养狗执照上与守法的公民们纠缠不休呢。
• He told the photographers to stop pestering him.
  他告诉照相的人别再缠着他。
• 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。
• Stop pestering me. I can't make an exception for you.
  别跟我泡蘑菇了，我不能为你破例。
• You'll only antagonize them if you keep pestering them like that.
  如果你老是那样纠缠，你会引起他们的怨恨的。
• Stop pestering me, and go and play on your own.
  别老缠着我，自己玩儿去。
• 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。
• He wouldn't stop pestering me.
  他还是缠着我不放。
• 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。
• The kids kept pestering me to read to them.
  娃娃们老缠着我给他们读故事书。