pester

• vt. 纠缠，烦扰；使烦恼
• n. (Pester)人名；(德)佩斯特

可能来自pest,害虫，害鸟，-er,表反复。引申词义打扰，纠缠。

1. annoy persistently;

"The children teased the boy because of his stammer"

pester (v.)

1520s, "to clog, entangle, encumber," probably a shortening of Middle French empestrer "place in an embarrassing situation" (Modern French empêtrer, Walloon epasturer), from Vulgar Latin *impastoriare "to hobble" (an animal), from Latin im- "in" + Medieval Latin pastoria (chorda) "(rope) to hobble an animal," from Latin pastoria, fem. of pastorius "of a herdsman," from pastor "herdsman" (see pastor (n.)). Sense of "annoy, trouble" (1560s) is from influence of pest. Related: Pestered; pestering.

Back in the good old days—say, two years ago, when the last of my children suffered the ordeal (折磨)—a high-school student applying to college could procrastinate all the way to New Year's Day of their senior year, assuming they could withstand the parental pestering (烦扰).

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Journalists pestered neighbours for information.

记者缠着邻居打听消息。

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He has been pestering her with phone calls for over a week.

他打电话骚扰她有一个多星期了。

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The horses were continually pestered by flies.

马不断地被苍蝇叮咬。

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The kids kept pestering me to read to them.

娃娃们老缠着我给他们读故事书。

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I thought she'd stop pestering me, but it only seemed to make her worse...

我原以为她会停止纠缠我，但结果她似乎是变本加厉了。

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I know he gets fed up with people pestering him for money.

我知道他烦透了那些缠着他要钱的人。

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Lunch was the worst. Seven of my friends could pester me at once.

午饭的时候最糟, 我的七个朋友一直不依不饶地追问我.

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Oh, let them alone. Don't pester them.

哦, 让他们请便罢, 千万不要打扰他们.

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Now with Joy for company, she didn't pester him so much and he came home later.

近来,有小福子做伴儿, 她不甚管束他了,他就晚回来一些.

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He told her not to pester him with trifles.

他对她说不要为小事而烦扰他.

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S. nonetheless fully agreed this time not to pester India again about its military nuclear program.

然而,美国这一次却完全同意不再过问印度的军事核武计画.

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It is painful to acknowledge, but marketers were right all along : pester power works.

要承认这一点很痛苦, 但市场营销商们的理念一直正确——孩子一哭闹,父母就买单.

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Don't pester me with your trivial matters.

别拿你那些鸡毛蒜皮的事同我纠缠.

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PLAYER, how long will you pester me with indecisive ways?

你到底要为这些细枝末节纠缠我多久?

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I beg you too, don't pester me about watching something I have no interest in!

就算我也求求你, 别再缠着我逼我去看我根本没兴趣的东西!

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For years Mary have been pester him to take her to europe.

玛丽多年来一直缠著他要他带她去欧洲玩.

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I pester them with theories on why Citi's and AIG's shares are spiking.

我会缠着他们宣讲自己有关花旗(Citi)和美国国际集团(AIG)的股价将大涨之缘由的理论.

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Don't pester me. I've got something urgent to attend to.

你别跟我蘑菇了, 我还有急事呢.

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Did not want to pester.

请不要纠缠我.

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Pester greatly increases the attack speed of the bird at the cost of dealing less damage.

纠缠大大增加鸟类的攻击速度,但攻击造成的伤害减少.

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She tried to shake him off but he continued to pester her.

她想甩开他,但他仍不断缠着她.

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Not pester me tell you, you are still there in front of our eyes.

告诉你别缠着我, 你却还出现在我的眼前. 怎么说来着?

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On the whole the U.S. will not pester India about its nuclear policy until 2014.

综合而言,一直到2014年,美国都不会过问印度的核能政策.

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When evil zombies pester the streets and break into your house.

当邪恶的僵尸闯入了你的家园你该怎么办?

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You do not need to pester him. We can succeed without him.

你不用死乞白赖地求他, 没有他我们照样能成功.

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If someone says you killed a person thin airly, can you pester an explanation with him?

假如有人无中生有地说你杀了人, 你会跟他纠缠解释 吗 ?

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