【assail】 - AEAS备考词汇

assail

UK:  [ə'seɪl]

US:  [ə'seɪl]

第三人称单数：assails  现在分词：assailing  过去式：assailed  

v.

1.攻击,袭击

2.攻击,指(为)

3.(用言论)指责

4.猛击;困扰

5.毅然应付(难局、工作等)

6.袭击,袭来,涌来,涌上心头,猛烈的冲激;突然想起

7.面对

8.折磨

9.带来

1 . Meanwhile, campaigners on the left assail him for not pushing hard enough for a public health-insurance plan.
同时，左翼竞争者抨击他不竭力推动公众健康保险计划。

2 . If this Paroxysm of sorrow was to assail him again that night, there was but one place for him to be.
如果这一晚，这种排山倒海式的哀愁又要来折磨他，那他只有一个好地方可去。

3 . attack, bombard, assail, storm, assault, beset These verbs mean to set upon, physically or figuratively.
这些动词都表示实际或象征性地攻击。

4 . They assail with thunder and lightning the author of that book.
他们大肆攻击那本书的作者。

5 . But now and then, a frustrated worker will assail his assistant by casting aspersions on some aspect of the other's work.
不过，时不时会有一名灰心丧气的工人抨击他的助手，就其工作的某方面进行诽谤。