besieged的意思|besieged的解释-里氏词典

besieged

v.
包围,围绕, 使烦恼
vbl.
包围,围绕

besieged

[ adj ]
surrounded by hostile forces
<adj.all>
the besieged town

Besiege \Be*siege"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Besieged}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Besieging}.] [OE. bisegen; pref. be- + segen to
siege. See {Siege}.]
To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of
compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to
beset.

Till Paris was besieged, famished, and lost. --Shak.

Syn: To environ; hem in; invest; encompass.

They are besieged by the Syrians and allied forces.
More than 1,000 angry Cypriot soccer fans besieged the winning Scottish team after a World Cup qualifying match, stoning the Scots' locker room and injuring nine people, police said.
Hamid El Miloudi, 46, of Chattanooga, Tenn., until recently had been one of the Americans who had sought refuge at the besieged U.S. Embassy in Kuwait.
But he and others noted that the pound has been attractive only for the high U.K. interest rates that the government has used against inflation. Overall, the country is besieged by high inflation and unemployment and by low productivity, he said.
THE European Commission is trying to push member states into active support for US air-drops of humanitarian aid to besieged Moslem enclaves in eastern Bosnia-Hercegovina.
The Tass news agency said Sunday that guerrillas in Afghanistan shot civilians, including children, fleeing the besieged city of Jalalabad.
At the same time, officials of the corporation were also being besieged by shareholder demands for some of the federal money it had received, and they gave in too often for their own good.
Security forces last month besieged the temple to flush out Sikh militants there.
Tass said the Moscow city council was besieged with telephone calls Friday night from Muscovites worried that their neighborhood might be contaminated by poisonous gas released by the explosion earlier in the day.
Like many other besieged cities in the U.S., New York is losing its war against drugs-not because its law-enforcement authorities are ineffective, but because the judicial system is failing to hold up its end.
All 28 people aboard were killed when an airliner was hit by a missile as it approached Sukhumi, where Georgian troops are besieged by Abkhazian separatists.
House Speaker Jim Wright seems keenly aware that he's walking a fine line in leading the Democrats while besieged by an ethics committee probe of his personal finances.
However, it increased popular discontent with Kaunda, who is among a group of African rulers besieged by demands for democratic reforms.
Some relief officials estimate as many as 2 million people may have died since Sudan's war broke out in 1983, mostly civilians driven from their homes who either died seeking shelter or starved to death in refugee camps and besieged towns.
While a minority found succour in the romance of the besieged volk in its laager, most longed to be rid of the burden of being an international pariah. It could not come at a better time.
Hundreds of troop reinforcements Tuesday reached the besieged military camps at Kiran and Kalawanchukudi in Batticaloa district, forcing the Tigers to retreat into the jungles, the officials said.
On Friday, salvos of rockets were fired from Shweifat on the besieged 310-square-mile Christian enclave north of Beirut.
Thai intelligence officers who crossed the border after Sunday's fighting and walked near the besieged village said they smelled the stench of rotting corpses.
Afghan guerrillas said they gained control of about 24 miles of the road leading west to the besieged city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province.
The aircraft had been sent to evacuate Russian diplomats and their families from the besieged capital.
As secretary of the Vanuatu Hotels and Resorts Association, Mr. Winter acted as a proper and gracious host, only to find himself similarly besieged by the press, including requests for live radio interviews on call-in programs in Australia.
The report by the official Angolan news agency ANGOP, monitored in Lisbon, said the attack came Thursday near the besieged southern Angolan town of Cuito Cuanavale.
Video stores have been besieged with requests for cassettes of "Three Men and a Baby" amid speculation that the ghost of a child lurks in a scene in the Disney film.
Aoun's estimated 20,000 troops, outnumbered about 3-1 by the Syrians and their Moslem allies, are besieged in the Christian enclave north of Beirut.
When President Mikhail S. Gorbachev visited the Siberian city of Krasnayarsk last month, he was besieged by angry citizens complaining of shortages.
He has also gained support among other shareholders. 'Following newspaper comment that I was looking at the proposed GEC offer for certain shareholders, I have been besieged by shareholders wanting to be part of a concerted group,' Mr Katz said.
According to Omsk officials, orders for T-72 tanks have come in from Yemen, the besieged Georgian region of North Ossetia and Armenia, which is sporadically fighting Azerbaijan.
A rocket hit a crowded bus station in the besieged Afghan capital Tuesday, killing 23 people and injuring an undetermined number, Radio Kabul reported.
Afghan rebels said Wednesday they have not abandoned their fight for the besieged eastern city of Jalalabad, but are reorganizing for assaults on other communist-held cities in Afghanistan.
He cancelled the order 10 minutes later. Arriving in Funchal, the capital, Maxwell found himself besieged by journalists.

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