英:['tʃɪvɪ]
美:['tʃɪvɪ]
英:['tʃɪvɪ]
美:['tʃɪvɪ]
复数:chivies
第三人称单数:chivies
现在分词:chivying
过去式:chivied
过去分词:chivied
词根:chivy
vt.chivvy 使烦扰;耍花招(等于chivy)
Verb
1. annoy continually or chronically;
"He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"
"This man harasses his female co-workers"
chivy, noun, chase, hunt, probably from English dialect Chevy Chase chase, confusion, from the name of a ballad describing the battle of Otterburn (1388)
The first known use of chivy was in 1918
chivyverb
to annoy or bother again and again about little things : pester
1 We returned to the farmyard with the wind and rain chivying us from behind.
2 It is he whom that swarm of riff-raff has been chivying.
3 They can lead you a pretty dance if you chivy them.
4 Ask any man who's been chivied about to all the ends of the earth and back again.
5 It is about twenty minutes before they get off again, and, at the next corner, they see a cow, and you have to leave the boat to chivy the cow out of their way.
6 Eight months ago and things is still the same, You're known about 'ere by your maiden name, I'm getting chivied by my pals 'cos why?
7 Do you suppose I'm going to chivy Jimmy about without doing anything to help him?
8 Having seen two successive wives of the delicate poet chivied and worried into their graves, she had adopted that cool, detached manner to meet her gifted father’s outbreaks of selfish temper.
9 It’s lucky to chivvy the hawk what chivvies a magpie.
10 She shrieks, yells, sings, chivies the servant, and skims plates out of the window at the passers-by.
11 I thought: "In a day or two I shall get to like her, and then I shan't be able to chivy her."
12 Personally I don't propose to be chivied about indefinitely like this, so I propose that we let them come into the dormitory, and see what happens.
13 Whenever outrageous fortune chivied him with slings and arrows penniless to Paris, there was always the Agence waiting to be resuscitated.
14 It would have been rare fun to have had a game of chivy chase over Dutch territory; quite good sport; but I had to travel without escort.
15 He was chivied about, insulted, and abused by every one; yet he received it all with a smiling face.
16 How long, he asked them, were Guys to be chivied, and harried, and moved along into back-streets by the brutal minions of a corrupt middle-class?
17 It seems," Haigh remarked once, "that those two fools have made up their minds to race round this five-franc bit of an island for so long as we three fools choose to chivy them.
18 It consists of hunting down the German spies and chivying the Home Secretary.
19 I did see some of the peasants chivying a fellow down below.
20 I mean to say, they had started a rag with me—a bit of chaff—and I now found myself rather preposterously enjoying the manner in which they had chivied me.
2 追逐
3 烦扰
annoying worrisome pestiferous bother annoyance vexation worriment fuss worry hassle plague bait spite disturb torment weary smite ruffle gall nettle fidget harrow displease vex disquiet incommode bullyrag bore annoy make nervous disturbed gripe botheration trouble hound badger persecute pester faze roil encumber nark beleaguer be obsessed by
4 巧妙地处理