belabour

vt. 痛打

发音

UK /bɪˈleɪ.bə/
其它

词形变化

belabour'd belaboured belaboureth belabouring belabours 三单 belabours belabouring 现在分词 belaboured 过去式 belaboured 过去分词

别名

belabor

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To labour about; labour over; to work hard upon; to ply diligently.

    英国 废旧 及物
  2. 2.

    To beat or thump (someone) soundly.

    英国 及物

    1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling He saw the village; he was seen coming bending forward upon his horse, belabouring it with great blows, the girths dripping with blood.

  3. 3.

    To attack (someone) verbally.

    英国 及物
  4. 4.

    To discuss or explain (something) excessively or repeatedly; to harp on or overelaborate.

    英国 及物

    1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, inaugural speech Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belabouring those problems which divide us.

词汇关系

动词

同义词 1

belabor

上位词 9

beat knock criticize criticise work at work on work over beat up pick apart

相关短语

belabour the point labour the point

词源

From be- (“on, upon, about, over”) + labour. Compare bework, betoil, beswink.

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