fusillade
发音
How to pronounce fusillade in British English:
英 [ˌfju:zəˈleɪd]
How to pronounce fusillade in American English:
美 [ˌfjusəˈleɪd]
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- Noun:
- rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms
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- Verb:
- attack with fusillade
单词词源
- fusillade (n.)
- "simultaneous discharge of firearms," 1801, from French fusillade, from fusiller "to shoot" (18c.), from fusil "musket" (see fusilier). As a verb from 1816.
双语例句
- 1. To attack with a fusillade .
- 2. If ms kagan was unsettled by this fusillade she did not betray it .
- 3. They retreated under a fusillade of bullets .
- 4. Our fusillade from the left flank caught them by surprise .
- 5. The bank of japan , after six years off the battlefield , has launched a fusillade of intervention to hold down the yen in foreign exchange markets .