Assail

(verb.) attack someone physically or emotionally; 'The mugger assaulted the woman'; 'Nightmares assailed him regularly'.

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• To attack the first is not to assail the last. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• This resistance only infuriated Mr. Sikes the more; who, dropping on his knees, began to assail the animal most furiously. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Have faith in the immortality of the soul, which no pain, no mortal disease, can assail or touch! 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Care cannot assail us here. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I don't doubt the position you have gained in the town, and I don't wish to assail it even if I could. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It was not like Worcester's, gaping wide open, to receive and retain all the trash that might assail his ears. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• He gnashed his teeth with rage, tore the hair from his head, and assailed with horrid imprecations the men who had been intrusted with the writ. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He has over and over again solemnly declared that, until this scandal assailed him, he had never even heard of the Moonstone. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The patent was infringed and assailed, but finally sustained by the highest courts of England. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Had Rachel reverted to this unlucky accident, at the critical moment when my place in her estimation was again, and far more seriously, assailed? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• They assailed the walrus, the bear, and the whale. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Nothing was clear but that the unpopular steamer was assailed with reproaches on all sides. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Let him be prepared to be assailed by the odours of undrained gutters, ditches, and roads called streets, and escape, if he can, stumbling and falling into them. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I said, You know not what you are doing in thus assailing me: What an argument are you raising about the State! 柏拉图. 理想国.
• If unassailed, we depart assailing no one. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Spain was assailing Granada, the last foothold of the Moslems in western Europe. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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