belabor

• vt. 痛打；抨擊；過度說明；反複討論

前綴be-, 強調。labor, 勞動，努力。即努力爭取的，反複強調的。

belabor (v.)

1590s, "to exert one's strength upon," from be- + labor (v.). But figurative sense of "assail with words" is attested somewhat earlier (1590s); and belabored is attested from mid-15c. with a sense of "tilled, cultivated."

1. Don't belabor the point.

別再羅嗦這事兒了.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. He seems to be looking for a man of straw to belabor.

他看來在找一個假想的敵人來加以痛打。

來自辭典例句