She badgered me for weeks until I finally gave in.
她缠了我好几个星期,直到我最终答应了她。
badger somebody to do something
My friends keep badgering me to get a cell phone.
我那些朋友老是催着我去买手机。
badger somebody into doing something
I had to badger the kids into doing their homework.
我得不断催促孩子们做家庭作业。
Examples from the Corpus
badger• I remember watching a whole flock of female phalaropes badgering a poormale so intensely he almost drowned.• The divabadgers and belittles her Juilliard students, all in the name of perfection.• Did you notice when you were badgering her how she got interested in remembering Pempie and then could leave the room?• She had badgered her parents into letting her join the Women's AuxiliaryTerritorial Service after her eighteenth birthday.• He would badger him about anything, often hitting him on the least pretext.• When I badgered people, they had to admit that yes, I did look a bit like Eric Cantona.• Terry kept badgering the guards for magazines and a radio.• Often the result of one partnerbadgering the other into making a bit of a show.
Originbadger1
(1500-1600) Probably from badge; because of the white marks on its head