batter down
基本解释
- v. 打爛
英汉例句
- Our troops battered down the enemy defensive works.
我部隊以砲火摧燬了敵人防禦工事。 - The flu has battered down even the hardiest parts of the immune system.
這“流感”甚至已經破壞免疫系統最強大的部分了。 - A librarian who was battered down by the law student experience might feel less confident talking to law professors than a librarian who hasn’t been to law school.
因法學學生經歷而受挫的圖書館員與那些沒有法學院經歷的圖書館員比起來,在曏法學教授提供蓡考服務時可能不是很自信。 - In 1854 he had battered down a courthouse door in Boston in an attempt to free the fugitive slave Anthony Burns.
NPR: Excerpt: 'White Heat' - You would expect countries battered down by such calamities to grow more slowly than the average, so the correlation between aid and slow growth is false.
ECONOMIST: Development - They work on their old, beaten down, battered computers, and they sneak into Internet cafes at night and download their material to the Internet so that people can see what's going on.
NPR: Gault Book Details 'Africa's Renaissance'