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N-COUNT
(长期坚定不移的)斗争，运动
A crusade is a long and determined attempt to achieve something for a cause that you feel strongly about.
例句
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。
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VERB
长期坚定不移地奋斗
If you crusade for a particular cause, you make a long and determined effort to achieve something for it.
例句
...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
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N-PROPER-PLURAL
(发生于11世纪至13世纪的)十字军东征
The Crusades were the wars that were fought by Christians in Palestine against the Muslims during the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries.