英 [ˈpestə(r)] 美 [ˈpestər]
vt. 纠缠，烦扰；使烦恼
n. （Pester）人名；（德）佩斯特
第三人称单数pesters
现在分词pestering
过去式pestered
过去分词pestered
pester /ˈpɛstə/ CET6+ TEM8 [ pestering pestered pesters ]
及物动词 If you say that someone is pestering you, you mean that they keep asking you to do something, or keep talking to you, and you find this annoying. 纠缠
I thought she'd stop pestering me, but it only seemed to make her worse.
我以为她会停止纠缠我，但似乎只是让她变本加厉了。
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。
... pessimistic adj. 悲观的，厌世的；悲观主义的 pester vt. 纠缠，烦扰；使烦恼 pharmaceutical adj. 制药（学）的 ...
... pessimistic adj. 悲观的，厌世的；悲观主义的 pester vt. 纠缠，烦扰；使烦恼 pharmaceutical adj. 制药（学）的 ...
People pester me and they pester others with inquiries about what I am doing.
人们不断打扰我，也互相打扰，打听我正在做什么。
While my mother prepared dinner each night, my brothers and I would pester her.
每天晚上妈妈做饭的时候，我和哥哥都会缠着她问。
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。
"The very practice of dangling a toy or other premium to get kids to pester their parents to go into the restaurant and buy food,junky or nutritious, is unethical and,we believe,illegal."
VOA : standard.2010.06.24
It was a complete waste of time, unless the goal in life was simply to pester the user for some input.
刚才的时间就完全浪费了，除非那个唯一的目的,是简单地纠缠用户索要一些输入。
计算机科学课程节选 : 哈佛公开课
So we'll talk a bit more about this idea of functions today, but, get int, again, can think of it as a black box, whose purpose in life is to prompt the human for input and pester the human if he or she doesn't actually give it int, but then once it has that, has entered it from the user, it's quote unquote, returns it to you.
所以我们进今天将多讨论点这个函数的概念，但是，GetInt，我们可以把它当做一个黑盒子，它的唯一目的是提示人们来输入,并且如果他或她没有,给它int数，则会纠缠用户，但是一旦它得到了，用户输入的int数，对输入进行引用，返回给你。
计算机科学课程节选 : 哈佛公开课
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It is painful to acknowledge, but marketers were right all along: pester power works.
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