crusade
                    
      英 [kruːˈseɪd]                            
                        美 [kruːˈseɪd]                    
                    
                        
- n. 改革运动;十字军东侵
- vi. 加入十字军;从事改革运动
 
                    
                    
                 
                
             
                        
            
                1. 处在重大的发展的十字路口,肯定需要改革。            
                        
            
                crusade 十字军东征词源同cross,十字架,因战士携带十字架而得名。
             
                        
            
                
- crusade
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crusade: see cross
 
- crusade (n.)
- 1706, respelling of croisade (1570s), from Middle French croisade (16c.), Spanish cruzada, both from Medieval Latin cruciata, past participle of cruciare "to mark with a cross," from Latin crux (genitive crucis) "cross." Other Middle English forms were croiserie, creiserie. Figurative sense of "campaign against a public evil" is from 1786.
- crusade (v.)
- 1732, from crusade (n.). Related: Crusaded; crusading.
 
                
- 1. Bennett launched a crusade for "moral values" against decadent "liberal relativism." 
- 贝内特发起了一场捍卫“道德价值”、反对腐朽堕落的“自由相对论”的战争。
- 2. 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。
- 3. to lead a crusade against crime 
- 领导长期打击犯罪活动的运动
- 4. They have long been involved in a crusade for racial equality. 
- 长期以来他们一直致力于争取种族平等的运动.
- 5. For 23 years he led a crusade for peace. 
- 他领导了一场和平运动23年之久.