belabour[bi'leibə]

• vt.
  • 痛打；打击，鞭打；攻击，袭击：

    to belabour someone with a stick soundly

    用棍棒把某人毒打一顿

  • 抨击；申斥；批评；责骂：

    to belabour someone with insults

    对某人辱骂

    a book that belabours the individualism of his contemporaries

    一部对其同时代人的个人主义作严肃批评的书

  • 唠唠叨叨地反复讲，向…唠叨；就…做过多的讨论(或说明、解释)：

    We all see your point;there's no need to belabour it.

    我们都已理解你的意思，没必要做过多的解释。

    She kept belabouring the point long after they had agreed.

    他们意见取得一致后很久她还继续对此点作不必要的说明。

  • 反复讨论(或研究)：

    I propose to belabour this point of view.

    我建议对此观点多加讨论。

  • [废语]= labour