batter down

常见例句

Our troops battered down the enemy defensive works.
我部队以炮火摧毁了敌人防御工事。
The flu has battered down even the hardiest parts of the immune system.
这“流感”甚至已经破坏免疫系统最强大的部分了。
A librarian who was battered down by the law student experience might feel less confident talking to law professors than a librarian who hasn’t been to law school.
因法学学生经历而受挫的图书馆员与那些没有法学院经历的图书馆员比起来，在向法学教授提供参考服务时可能不是很自信。

In 1854 he had battered down a courthouse door in Boston in an attempt to free the fugitive slave Anthony Burns.
NPR: Excerpt: 'White Heat'
You would expect countries battered down by such calamities to grow more slowly than the average, so the correlation between aid and slow growth is false.
ECONOMIST: Development
They work on their old, beaten down, battered computers, and they sneak into Internet cafes at night and download their material to the Internet so that people can see what's going on.
NPR: Gault Book Details 'Africa's Renaissance'