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

• As mayor, he launched a string of crusades.
  在担任纽约市长的时候，他曾推出了一系列改革举措。
• A substantial part of the book covers the period of the Crusades.
  这本书有很大一部分是讲十字军东征那段历史的。
• 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。
• Vatican had a change of heart over 'barbaric' Crusades.
  罗马教廷对“野蛮的”十字军东征改变了看法。
• The first Christian Crusades of the11th and12th centuries were attempts to reconquer Christian and Jewish lands that had been conquered by Arab armies.
  当年在11和12世纪时十字军想征服那些被穆斯林军队征服的原属基督徒和犹太人的土地。
• The crusades were essentially the product of their time, bound up with the medieval way of life, especially with feudalism.
  十字军基本上是时代的产物，它受到中世纪生活方式尤其是封建主义的约束。
• ( historically) a Muslim who opposed the crusades.
  （历史上的）反对宗教战争的穆斯林。
• The believable causes of the Renaissance: ( 1) the Crusades;( 2) the invention of printing.
  可相信的文艺复兴的原因：一是十字军东征，二是印刷术的发明。
• 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。
• 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！