One story says it got that meaning from the custom of throwing boiling water down on enemies attacking a castle.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

Gadamer says, and here again he's attacking historicism: The text that is understood historically is forced to abandon its claim that it is uttering something true.

伽达默尔在攻击历史相对主义时这样说道：,文本如果放在历史的角度理解,那么这样的理解肯定不是绝对正确的。

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clothes off and attacking the lice that are attacking them.] Soon like a demons' pantomime The place was raging.

袭击那些袭击他们的虱子],很快像是恶魔的哑剧,这个地方狂暴了，这是夜间，蜡烛和火焰。

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But they also found something else. They say another kind of bug is now attacking the cotton and other crops.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

The mouth moves up, particularly if somebody is attacking their record or ridiculing them, and they'll smile and--but it's not a sincere smile.

嘴唇移动，特别当有人攻击他们的记录,或嘲笑他们时，他们会微笑，但不是真诚的微笑。

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Experts on language say the expression was born more than two hundred fifty years ago, when pirates sailed the seas, attacking and robbing trade ships.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

It seems as though while you don't have a dominating strategy, it seems like Hannibal is better off attacking through-- It seems like he would attack through the easy pass.

虽然看起来你好像没有优势策略,但似乎汉尼拔将军最好的选择是,他应该会选择从平坦之途入侵

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At first,the red men of Helium thought we were an attacking army.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

In attacking Cephalus as he does, Socrates attacks the embodiment of conventional opinion, the Nomos supporting the city.

在攻击，Cephalus，时，苏格拉底,主攻惯例观点的体现，那些支撑起城邦的习俗。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So the body starts attacking its own organs and tissues.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

Here you've got a magazine that doesn't present itself as attacking anything at all, but rather as what?

你们看到的这份杂志并不是为了抨击什么,那么为什么要创立它？

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So,the body starts attacking its own organs and tissues.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

"We are not," Roosevelt said, "attacking these big companies.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

They kill insects by attacking their nervous systems.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

They enjoy attacking each other with funny insults.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

They know that Twain was really attacking racism.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

Democrats campaigned by attacking Republican dishonesty.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

Ghana coach Rajevac describes Forlan as a fine player and his team will need to beware of Uruguay's attacking threat.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

Mr.Brown said attacking al-Qaida had to go hand-in-hand with a strategy of building capacity so that Afghanistan can take care of itself.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

He is sometimes called "Warbrecht," "War Horse," and "Wild Man" because of his attacking style and numerous crashes.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told VOA some could be put on trial for attacking the commandos.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

Nourizadeh also says that the students have reportedly invited their parents to participate, in order to prevent security forces from attacking them.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

And with no money for seeds, and insects attacking her crops, the next harvest is at risk.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

Some 3,600 firefighters are attacking the flames in steep terrain, using bulldozers, tractors and hand tools.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Khamenei said the intelligence agencies of the world are attacking the Islamic republic, which stands in their way, preventing them from achieving their goals.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

The eyewitnesses say after attacking a convoy carrying the terror suspect, the U.S.troops landed and took the corpse of the Kenyan-born man with them.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

The military is already shifting to a newer, slightly less sophisticated aircraft, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, designed more for attacking targets on the ground.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

Bereket told reporters, pro-government Somali militias have permission to use Ethiopia as a base of operations in attacking al-Shabab rebels, who control large sections of southern Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.08.20

But there is also strong interest in attacking Taliban sanctuaries in Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

Pakistani media broadcast footage of thousands of people walking out of the Lower Dir region, fleeing helicopter gunship attacks and artillery strikes against Taliban militants accused of attacking security forces.

VOA: standard.2009.04.27