crusades

英 [kruːˈseɪdz]

美 [kruːˈseɪdz]

n.  (长期坚定不移的)斗争，运动; (中世纪的)十字军东征
v.  长期坚定不移地奋斗
crusade的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (长期坚定不移的)斗争，运动
  Acrusadeis a long and determined attempt to achieve something for a cause that you feel strongly about.
  1. Footballers launched an unprecedented crusade against racism on the terraces...
     足球运动员们对阶梯看台上的种族歧视发起了一场空前的运动。
  2. He made it his crusade to teach children to love books.
     他把教孩子们热爱读书当做自己的使命。
• VERB 长期坚定不移地奋斗
  If youcrusadefor a particular cause, you make a long and determined effort to achieve something for it.
  1. ...a newspaper that has crusaded against the country's cocaine traffickers.
     坚决抨击该国***毒贩的报纸
  2. ...an adopted boy whose cause is taken up by a crusading lawyer.
     由一位执著坚定的律师受理其诉讼案件的被收养男孩
• (发生于11世纪至13世纪的)十字军东征
  The Crusadeswere the wars that were fought by Christians in Palestine against the Muslims during the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries.

双语例句

• The Crusades ended some 700 years ago.
  十字军东征在700多年前就结束了。
• Europe lost the wars of the Crusades.
  欧洲人发动的十字军东征以失败告终。
• Geoffrey Chaucer was born some hundred years after the last war of the Crusades, in the early part of the Renaissance.
  十字军东征最后的一场战争之后几百年，杰弗里•乔叟出生，那时正是文艺复兴的早期。
• ( historically) a Muslim who opposed the crusades.
  （历史上的）反对宗教战争的穆斯林。
• Thoreau's anti-government, anti-tax crusades captured American sentiment, but he never had much of a following.
  虽然梭罗的反政府、反税收运动让美国人拍手叫好，但是他的支持者却屈指可数。
• He had within his reach his pistols and carbine, and Ali, standing near him, held one of the small Arabian hatchets, whose form has not varied since the Crusades.
  手枪和马枪就在他的身边，阿里站在他的附近，手里握着一把那种自十字军以来从未改变过式样的阿拉伯小斧头。
• The believable causes of the Renaissance: ( 1) the Crusades;( 2) the invention of printing.
  可相信的文艺复兴的原因：一是十字军东征，二是印刷术的发明。
• I learnt that long before the Bush family took power, it was the Pope that initiated Crusades on Muslim lands.
  在布什家族上台前，原来是教皇大人在穆斯林的土地上发动了十字军！
• Affected districts have banned discotheques, crusades and public video halls to reduce human contact.
  疫区已经禁止夜总会、舞厅和公共录像厅营业以减少人群接触。
• The first Christian Crusades of the11th and12th centuries were attempts to reconquer Christian and Jewish lands that had been conquered by Arab armies.
  当年在11和12世纪时十字军想征服那些被穆斯林军队征服的原属基督徒和犹太人的土地。