資料來源 : pyDict
強求,硬要強求,糾纏
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Importune \Im`por*tune"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Importuned}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Importuning}.] [From {Importune}, a.: cf. F.
importuner.]
1. To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with
frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or
pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry.
Their ministers and residents here have perpetually
importuned the court with unreasonable demands.
--Swift.
2. To import; to signify. [Obs.] ``It importunes death.''
--Spenser.
Importune \Im`por*tune"\, v. i.
To require; to demand. [Obs.]
We shall write to you, As time and our concernings
shall importune. --Shak.
資料來源 : WordNet®
importune
v : beg persistently and urgently; "I importune you to help
them" [syn: {insist}]