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

• The Crusades ended some 700 years ago.
  十字军东征在700多年前就结束了。
• Wrap this one around yourselves, folks: The next Christian Crusades will be conducted by the Chinese.
  用这个想法环抱自己吧，夥计：下一个基督教十字军将由中国人领衔。
• 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！
• Ever since the Crusades, pilgrims had made the city a focal point of their travels.
  从十字军东征以后，朝圣者已使该城市成为他们旅行的一个集中点。
• They broke through the Moslem defenses and began a long series of wars called the Crusades.
  他们冲破穆斯林人的防线，发动了一系列的战争，人们称之为十字军东征。
• 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。
• 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。
• ( historically) a Muslim who opposed the crusades.
  （历史上的）反对宗教战争的穆斯林。
• The crusades weakened feudalism, reduced the rule of the church, and made the Italian cities become a superpower to Mediterranean trade.
  十字军东征削弱了封建主义制度，弱化了教会的统治，并使意大利的一些城市成为地中海商业贸易的超级力量。
• The Middle East had become known to Europeans during the11th-13th century crusades.
  11至13世纪的十字军东征期间，欧洲人开始对中东有所了解。