importuned

英 [ˌɪmpɔːˈtjuːnd]

美 [ˌɪmpɔːrˈtuːnd]

v.  再三要求; 纠缠
importune的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 向…强求;对…胡搅蛮缠
  If someoneimportunesanother person, they ask them for something or ask them to do something, in an annoying way.
  1. One can no longer walk the streets without seeing beggars importuning passers by.
     走在街上总能看到乞丐纠缠行人乞讨。

双语例句

• One day, you will understand it's very importuned for your life.
  有一天，你会明白它在你的生活中是多么的重要。
• She wouldn't understand the hint, but followed me to a sideboard, where I went to lay my bonnet, and importuned me in a whisper to give her directly what I had brought.
  她不懂这个暗示，却跟着我到一个餐具柜那儿，我是到那儿放下我的帽子的，她低声央求我把我所带来的东西马上给她。
• In the summer, when the temperature rises much above60F, we are importuned to carry a bottle of water at all times as though we are about to trek across the Sahara.
  夏天时，当气温高于60华氏时，我们被硬性要求整天地携带着一瓶水，就像是我们将要徒步穿越撒哈拉一样。
• In this very heart of England's gentility it was difficult to realize that a lonely woman could be importuned or hunted.
  在这个英国文雅气息的中心，很难想象到一个孤独的女子会受到人家的纠缠和追逼。
• He importuned me for a position in my office.
  他不断地央求我安排他在我办公室工作。
• She importuned her husband for more money.
  她不断请求她丈夫多给她些钱。
• I understand nothing can be importuned for, but I long for a true love just like most people, too.
  我懂得凡是不可强求，可也和大多数人一样渴望着一份真爱呀。
• Benvolio: have you importuned him by any means?
  班伏里奥：您有没有设法探问过他？
• He importuned me to grant his request.
  他纠缠着要我答应他的请求。
• One day he decided that he wanted to be an immortal, so he went to live in the mountains where he importuned an immortal to teach him.
  有一天他想学道成仙，于是他住到深山里强求以为仙人教他法术。