redoubt
发音
英 [rɪˈdaʊt]
美 [rɪˈdaʊt]
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- n.
- （防御系统中的）最后阵地
- 孤立的前哨站
单词词源
redoubt 掩体，堡垒
来自法语 redoute,掩体，堡垒，来自拉丁语 reductus,避难地，撤退地，来自 re-,向后，往回， -duct,拉，引导，词源同 conduct,reduction.拼写受 doubt 影响俗化。
双语例句
- 1. At present the internet poses a puny threat to this commercial redoubt .
- 如今，网络已经对电视这个商业堡垒构成了小小的威胁。
- 2. They may be forced out of their redoubt in the city 's bakara market .
- 他们可能会被迫从设在该市巴卡拉市场的堡垒撤出。
- 3. Ok cupid 's office occupies a single floor of an office building a block away from the port authority bus terminal that old redoubt of pimps .
- 在港务局公共汽车总站那个皮条客的老堡垒一个街区以外的商务建筑中，“ok丘比特”的办公室独占一个楼层。
- 4. For more than half an hour our high-speed chase wound through the streets of burma 's moldering former capital past the carcasses of victorian-era government buildings abandoned when the junta mysteriously moved the seat of power to a remote redoubt five years ago .
- 约莫过了半个多小时，风驰电掣的出租车才穿过旧首都破败不堪的街道，越过建于维多利亚时期如今已被军政府废弃政府大楼，五年前，军政府将权力机构从这里迁到一座偏远的堡垒。