bombard
verb- bombard somebody/something (with something)
to attack a place by firing large guns at it or dropping bombs on it continuously 轰炸；轰击 Madrid was heavily bombarded for several months. 马德里遭到了数月的猛烈轰炸。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- heavily
- bombard somebody/something (with something)
to attack somebody with a lot of questions, criticisms, etc. or by giving them too much information 大量提问；大肆抨击；提供过多信息 We have been bombarded with letters of complaint. 我们接二连三收到了大批的投诉信件。 We are bombarded daily with propaganda about what we should eat. 我们每天都收到海量宣传，告诉我们应该吃什么。
Extra ExamplesWe're all constantly bombarded with television ads. 我们都时常处在电视广告的狂轰滥炸之下。 The interviewer bombarded her with intimate questions. 采访者连珠炮似地向她提出了许多涉及个人隐私的问题。 The local newspaper has been bombarded with letters from angry residents. 当地报纸受到愤怒居民来信的狂轰滥炸。 The media bombard us continually with images of how we should look. 媒体不断用我们应该如何看待的图像轰炸我们。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- constantly
- continually
- with
Word Originlate Middle English (as a noun denoting an early form of cannon, also a shawm) from Old French bombarde, probably based on Latin bombus ‘booming, humming’, from Greek bombos, of imitative origin. The verb (late 16th cent.) is from French bombarder.