大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 assail
释义：
assail vt. 攻击；质问；着手解决
[ 第三人称单数 assails 现在分词 assailing 过去式 assailed 过去分词 assailed ]
例句：
The thought came to assail me.
这个想法使我困扰。
Here dark woods, stone cold assail.
这里幽暗阴森，石冷袭人。
We should assist parents not assail them.
因此我们应该帮助父母们，而不是指责他们。
To assail with stinging criticism; excoriate.
痛责：以尖刻的批评攻击；严厉地批评。
Then doubts and fears did assail the very strongest.
那时，疑惑和恐惧的确困扰过意志最坚强的人。
The doubts and fears didn't assail the very strongest.
疑惑和恐惧没有困扰最坚强的人。
To assail with contemptuous coarse or insulting words; revile.
辱骂，毁谤用蔑视、粗俗或侮辱性的话攻击；谩骂。
My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death assail me.
我心在我里面甚是疼痛。死的惊惶临到我身。
To assail with contemptuous, coarse, or insulting words; revile.
辱骂，毁谤用蔑视、粗俗或侮辱性的话攻击；
By being unusually patient, he hopes to create businesses that rivals will find harder to assail.
Yet somehow Davis seemed to have almost unlimited money with which to assail Snow.
Paul Krugman turns up in one of the UK papers to assail the Republican war on science.
If it's a foreign policy group, its representatives will assail the foreign policy record of the other side.
Mr Khatami's own tactful and amiable style has protected him from the fierce assaults that assail his allies.
Legislators will also assail the general for having sought phone records - not wiretaps - for millions of Americans.
At the same time, threats assail viewership in many other media properties.
Other candidates—governors and senators and former cabinet members—will assail the politically inexperienced Mr Forbes for regarding the presidency as an entry-level job.
He is expected to testify next week, and President Clinton is tentatively scheduled to testify in late April to reject Hale's allegations and assail his truthfulness.
Why hire someone who would compromise the GOP's ability legitimately to assail not only these policies but the troubling roles played by the likes of Berger, Huang and Harman?
Indeed, it's way past time for police and investigators to go places and ask tough questions that Wahhabist- and other terrorist-connected groups and apologists will assail as racist or bigoted.
The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.
The protestors rightfully assail the bailouts of banks and Wall Street executives, but their solution is more of the same including bailouts for student loans and individuals who took out mortgages on houses they could not afford.
It is difficult to think of anyone better suited for those tasks than Mary Jo White, or anyone better able to then stand up to the critics who inevitably seem to assail the SEC on both sides.
The reason: O'Neill saw an opportunity for Democrats to assail Reagan as an enemy of Social Security, and he did not want the issue clouded by anything that could be interpreted as a Democratic plan to reduce benefits for anybody.
Their candidates are now able to assail Mr Bush for damaging American diplomacy, and its store of global goodwill, without seeming weak on Saddam Hussein, and without undermining the support they will give to American soldiers if and when fighting starts.
