importune

英式音标：importune怎么读

美式音标：importune怎么读

词汇归类： GRE

近义词： plead

importune词义

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vi. 强求；胡搅蛮缠vt. 强求；一再向某人要求

第三人称单数: importunes;过去式: importuned;过去分词: importuned;现在分词: importuning;

importune 纠缠

im-,不，非，port,港口。原义为没有港口的，无法入港的，引申词义麻烦的，骚扰，纠缠。比较opportune,opportunity.

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importune (v.): 1520s, back-formation from importunity, or else from Middle French importuner, from Medieval Latin importunari "to make oneself troublesome," from Latin importunus "unfit, troublesome," originally "having no harbor" (i.e. "difficult to access"), from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + portus "harbor" (see port (n.1)). Related: Importuned; importuning. As an adjective from early 15c.

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One can no longer walk the streets without seeing beggars importuning passers by.: 走在街上总能看到乞丐纠缠行人乞讨。