| 词汇 | tilt at somebody/something |
| 释义 | tilt at somebody/somethingtilt at somebody/something phrasal verbphr v a) CRITICIZEto attack someone in what you say or write 抨击〔某人〕 b) tilt at windmills to waste time and energy attacking an enemy that is not real 攻击幻想的敌人，庸人自扰 Examples from the Corpus tilt at windmills• But Woodhead's art was to tilt at windmills.• I felt that just by being there I was tilting at windmills.• For the past 12 years the Government have behaved like latter day Don Quixotes tilting at windmills and all the other renewables.• Commitment and dedication remained, but tilting at windmills had to stop.• Manning admits he was tilting at windmills in trying to change the nation's prison system.• While the Hague event may seem to be an exercise in tilting at windmills, the opposite may also be true. → tilt at somebody/something at tilt1(1) |
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