beleaguer

1 One night back in 2000, a beleaguered author who was not so hot on the idea of any book tour, but was nevertheless on a book tour, appeared at my restaurant Babbo, in New York.

2 The book comes during a global pandemic, and Oliver hopes it offers beleaguered home cooks more options.

3 But he, too, transcends his role as the stable, economically beleaguered Eagle Scout, before he falls completely from grace.

4 He ground through twenty-four-hour endurance tests and “stamina runs,” in which contestants looped up and down local roads until their beleaguered automobiles exploded or shed their wheels—the last one rolling was the winner.

5 Mr. Parks also writes about the encroachment of English into the train vocabulary and the growing divide between expensive fast trains and beleaguered regional ones.

6 Summer was over, and I was back in school, feeling as I often did this time of year: anxious and beleaguered.

7 There follows a daisy chain of tales about sufferers and suicides in what Ms. Baumane describes as her beleaguered gene pool.

8 Is there a more beleaguered group in the world of pop music than songwriters?

9 “The Music Man” opens Thursday as the marquee event of this theater season, commanding hundreds of dollars per ticket and signaling a new dawn for a beleaguered theater industry.

10 There’s a picture of me from around that time, next to my brother in a baby buggy, in which I already look like a beleaguered housewife.

11 The answer came late last year, and it was a resounding no, delivered by George Steel, the youthful managing director of the beleaguered New York City Opera.

12 With the music oozing and sputtering around him, Mr. Yorke’s spectral voice offers lyrics about being lost, alone, beleaguered, bereft.

13 The paradox of the financially beleaguered Steve losing his religion while everybody else finds theirs is laid out as tidily as a PowerPoint presentation.

14 Writing in The New York Times, A. O. Scott called Mr. Gere’s performance in this frothy Robert Altman riff on the book of Job “relaxed and generous, a show of beleaguered, sincere chivalry.”

15 The “John Wick” films, starring Keanu Reeves as the world’s most beleaguered hit man, are all about surfaces, systems and choreography.

16 Even today, in some parts of China, it is common practice for a man to seek justice by summoning his family and their Allies to beleaguer the home of the person who wronged him.

人们受了欺负，便召来家里人和亲戚围攻仇家，这在今天中国的一些地方还是司空见惯的。

17 When the beleaguered chauffeur Bigger Thomas sets out to extort money from his rich employers, the Black Rat is there, leaning over his shoulder and guiding the composition of the shakedown note.

18 In the United States, it was acquired by the beleaguered HereMedia, the film arm of Regent Media, which owns Out and The Advocate and was recently accused of defrauding banks of $90 million.

19 As a foreign correspondent in the 1980s I traveled widely in war-wrecked Afghanistan, and no one writes more movingly of the brutality and bravery of that beleaguered land.

20 Every beleaguered has-been is so had they’re willing to just take the bruise and roll with the quip.

1 烦扰

disturbed gripe botheration trouble bother plague annoy fuss hound badger persecute pester faze roil encumber nark chivy be obsessed by

2 包围

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3 苦恼

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4 困扰

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5 围攻

siege invest mob besiege beset lay siege to investment surround compass leaguer investiture besetment checkmate

6 使烦恼

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7 使苦恼

distress afflict chagrin harrow bedevil lacerate ride rock trouble tear upset fret ail

8 纠缠

knotted afoul ravelment tracasserie tangle skein involution knot dangle intwine intwist engage bone pursue haunt badger entangle pester entwine ravel fankle entwist

9 围住

besiege

10 围困

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11 烦恼

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12 使处于困境

snooker

13 折磨

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