crusades
n.
（历史上）十字军东征( crusade的名词复数 );
改革[讨伐，肃清]运动;
（长期坚定不移的）斗争，运动;
v.
加入十字军，从事改革运动( crusade的第三人称单数 );
例句:
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Crusades of a kind continued into the fifteenth century.
类似的十字军远征一直延续至15世纪.
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During the Crusades, Western Europe tried to contain the spread of Islam.
十字军东征期间, 西欧各国设法遏制伊斯兰势力的扩张.
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Something of the Crusades [ survives ] in the modern traveler ( Anatole Broyard )
现代旅游者身上留存有某种十字军性质的东西阿纳托尔布鲁瓦亚尔 )
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The power of the religious sentiment...inspired the crusades.
来自R. W. Emerson
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One might at least consider the fate of earlier Western crusades.
来自NEWYORKER
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Centuries ago it was the main justification given for the Crusades.
来自BBC