crusade
n. [史]十字军东征; (宗教性的)圣战; 改革运动
v. 加入十字军; 从事改革运动; 讨伐
A crusade is a long and determined attempt to achieve something for a cause that you feel strongly about.
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。
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。
If you crusade for a particular cause, you make a long and determined effort to achieve something for it.
...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
...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
The Crusades were the wars that were fought by Christians in Palestine against the Muslims during the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries.
1. a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end;
1. exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for;
2. go on a crusade; fight a holy war
Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
1095年,教皇乌尔班二世在克莱蒙特会议上宣布第一次十字军东征.
Has your peaceful nature led you on a crusade?
和平的天性,是否已令你投向圣战?
A dwarf cleric declares a holy crusade against ores.
98一个矮人牧师宣布向兽人发动一场圣战.
It's time to lower our geopolitical sights and end America's unrealistic crusade.
现在,我们该放下地缘政治学的假想,并且终结美国不现实的游行.
On a digital privacy crusade [ Interview with D . Holtzman on CNET News . com, January 30, 2002 ]
数码隐私运动 [ 霍茨曼访谈, 2002年1月30日 ]