- crusade (for/against something) | crusade (to do something)
a long and determined effort to achieve something that you believe to be right or to stop something that you believe to be wrong （长期坚定不移的）斗争，运动 to lead a crusade against crime 领导打击犯罪活动的运动 Her moral crusade began in 1963. 她那提倡道德的运动始于1963年。 a crusade to give terminally ill people the right to die 赋予绝症患者死亡权利的运动
Extra ExamplesFor 23 years he led a crusade for peace. 他领导了一场长达 23 年的和平运动。 He is on a crusade to take the church to the people. 他在从事一项向民众传教的工作。 She seems to be carrying out a personal crusade to stop this building work. 她似乎在开展一场个人圣战来阻止这项建筑工程。 The book urges parents to join a crusade against crime. 该书极力主张父母参加打击犯罪的运动。 The charity tonight launched its great crusade against homelessness. 今晚这家慈善机构发起了援助无家可归者的大型活动。 He led a crusade to give terminally ill people the right to die. 他领导了一场给予末期病人死亡权利的运动。 We must continue the crusade against crime. 我们必须继续打击犯罪。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- great
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any of the wars fought in Palestine by European Christian countries against the Muslims in the Middle Ages （中世纪的）十字军东征 CultureThe Crusades were a series of military expeditions between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries, in which armies from the Christian countries of Europe tried to get back the Holy Land (= the area that is now Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Egypt) from the Muslims. The soldiers who took part in the Crusades were called Crusaders. The best-known British Crusader was King Richard I. The Crusades achieved very little, but as a result of them new ideas were exchanged, trade was improved, and new goods such as sugar and cotton came to Europe for the first time.Topics Historyc2, War and conflictc2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- great
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Word Originlate 16th cent. (originally as croisade): from French croisade, an alteration (influenced by Spanish cruzado) of earlier croisée, literally ‘the state of being marked with the cross’, based on Latin crux, cruc- ‘cross’; in the 17th cent. the form crusado, from Spanish cruzado, was introduced. The blending of these two forms led to the current spelling, first recorded in the early 18th cent.