hound• The carcass is then pulled apart, but that is a natural thing for hounds to do.• Hark! her hounds are baying through the town.• A ganglingmixedbreed of Labradors and mongrelhounds and terriers.• I have been informed that this once happened, with the death of a number of hounds.• After a mile or two they passed an old farmer and asked him if he had seen Sir Hugo and the hounds.• Soon after, came the hounds.
hound2 verb [transitiveT]
1FOLLOWto keep following someone and asking them questions in an annoying or threatening way (不断)骚扰,烦扰 → harass
After the court case, Lee was hounded relentlessly by the press.
案件审结后,李不断受到新闻界的骚扰。
2hound somebody out (of/from something)LEAVE A JOB OR ORGANIZATIONto make things so unpleasant for someone that they are forced to leave a place, job etc 迫使某人离开(某事物)SYN drive out
The family were hounded out of their home by 18 months of abuse.
遭受了18个月的骚扰之后,那家人不得已搬家了。
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hound somebody out (of/from something)• The hounds pour out like spilledmilk.• It hounded him out of business.• Do you sympathise with people who hound paedophiles out of their homes?
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hound• BBut Porter was hounded by death threats from the moment he took office.• She had been hounded by her ex-boyfriend for months.• Nehru was also hounded by part of the press led by the DailyExpress, almost to the day of his death.• The couple found themselves hounded by photographers as they left the church.• Boorda would have been hounded by questions from reporters.• Indeed, some expect Clinton to be hounded even after he leaves office.• And now that Soo-Il no longer enjoyed the power of his office, creditors were not afraid to hound him.• There the DarkElves had been demoralised by the Witch King's defeat and hounded relentlessly by guerilla forces.• You really think it's the police who've been hounding us?