英 [əˈseɪl] 美 [əˈseɪl]
vt. 攻击；质问；着手解决
第三人称单数assails
现在分词assailing
过去式assailed
过去分词assailed
assail /əˈseɪl/ TEM8 [ assailing assailed assails ]
及物动词 If someone assails you, they criticize you strongly. 质问; 抨击
Protesters assailed the proposed fare increase.
抗议者们抨击了提价的提议。
及物动词 If someone assails you, they attack you violently. 攻击
Her husband was assailed by a young man with a knife in a nearby park.
她丈夫在附近的公园遭到一个持刀青年男子的攻击。
及物动词 If you are assailed by something unpleasant such as fears or problems, you are greatly troubled by a large number of them. 使被困扰
She is assailed by self-doubt and emotional insecurity.
她被自我怀疑和情感不安所困扰。
launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with
Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week
同义词： attack
... aside (n)窃窃私语，旁白；(adv)在一旁，收起的 assail 攻击 assuage 镇静，安抚，满足，使消失 ...
猛击，决然面对 assail 刺客 assassin ..
... aspirant 有抱负者 assail 缠住 assault 攻击，袭击；(军)冲击，突击，强击 ...
... tantalize 逗惹；使...着急 assail 猛击；决然面对 fulminate 猛烈爆发 ...
assailant 袭击的；攻击的
assailable 易受攻击的，有隙可乘的
assailant 攻击者
My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death assail me.
我心在我里面甚是疼痛。 死的惊惶临到我身。
9from the wicked who assail me, from my mortal enemies who surround me.
使我脱离那欺压我的恶人，就是围困我，要害我命的仇敌。
Their meeting was in Jobs's conference room, where Gates found himself surrounded by ten Apple employees who were eager to watch their boss assail him.
这次会面发生于乔布斯的会议上，盖茨一到那儿，就发现那里围了十个苹果员工，全都迫切希望看到自己的老板是怎样教训盖茨的。
This is Comus, line 588 -- the Elder Brother. The brother says: Virtue may be assail'd but never hurt, Surpris'd by unjust force but not enthrall'd, Yea even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.
这是《科玛斯》，第588行--哥哥这个角色，他说：,诗歌大意：，贞操或许遭袭，却不会受损，或许为不义之力突袭，却不会乱了阵脚，是的，对于贞操最重的伤害也不过是玩笑,考验只是证明它无上的荣光。
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By being unusually patient, he hopes to create businesses that rivals will find harder to assail.
Yet somehow Davis seemed to have almost unlimited money with which to assail Snow.
Paul Krugman turns up in one of the UK papers to assail the Republican war on science.