记忆方法
将“importune”分解为“impor”和“tune”。想象一个不断“tune”（调音）的音乐家在不请自来地打扰别人，这样“importune”就意味着不断地打扰或恳求别人，直到别人不耐烦。
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词族 · importune
中文词源
importune 纠缠
im-,不，非，port,港口。原义为没有港口的，无法入港的，引申词义麻烦的，骚扰，纠缠。比较opportune,opportunity.
英语词源
- importune (v.)
- 1520s, back-formation from importunity, or else from Middle French importuner, from Medieval Latin importunari "to make oneself troublesome," from Latin importunus "unfit, troublesome," originally "having no harbor" (i.e. "difficult to access"), from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + portus "harbor" (see port (n.1)). Related: Importuned; importuning. As an adjective from early 15c.
权威例句
- 1. Don't importune me with your complaints.
- 不要老是向我发牢骚.
- 2. Above all I do not wish to importune or compromise you.
- 总之我不希望你胡搅蛮缠或妥协.
- 3. I importune you to help them.
- 我恳求你去帮助他们.