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.
     坚决抨击该国可卡因毒贩的报纸
  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

• 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。
• A substantial part of the book covers the period of the Crusades.
  这本书有很大一部分是讲十字军东征那段历史的。
• Yes, the Crusades died off, but it was regaining popularity.
  士兵们虽然相继死去，但是十字军的阴魂一直未散。
• 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。
• 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。
• It rests on the assumption that nonwhites need the White Messiah to lead their crusades.
  它建立在非白人需要白人救世主来领导他们的正义之战的臆想之上。
• Threats to the states led the pope to call for future crusades.
  由于这些国家受到威胁，导致后来教宗又发起几次十字军东征。
• ( historically) a Muslim who opposed the crusades.
  （历史上的）反对宗教战争的穆斯林。
• 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！
• 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。