bulwark
英 [ˈbʊlwək]
美 [ˈbʊlwɜːrk]
n. 保护者,防御者(指人或事物); 堡垒; 防御工事; (船的)舷墙
复数:bulwarks 现在分词:bulwarking 过去式:bulwarked 第三人称单数:bulwarks 过去分词:bulwarked
BNC.18948 / COCA.18990
牛津词典
noun
- 保护者,防御者(指人或事物)
a person or thing that protects or defends sth- a bulwark against extremism
坚决反对极端主义者
- a bulwark against extremism
- 堡垒;防御工事
a wall built as a defence - (船的)舷墙
the part of a ship's side that is above the level of the deck
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 防护;壁垒
Abulwark againstsomething protects you against it. Abulwark ofsomething protects it.- The abbeys were founded in the 12th century by King David as a bulwark against the English...
这些修道院是12世纪大卫王用来抵御英国人而修建的堡垒。 - The House of Lords is the only bulwark of democracy in this country.
在这个国家,上议院是唯一的民主堡垒。
- The abbeys were founded in the 12th century by King David as a bulwark against the English...
英英释义
noun
- a protective structure of stone or concrete
- a fencelike structure around a deck (usually plural)
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- they stormed the ramparts of the city
- they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down
verb
- defend with a bulwark
双语例句
- The fund is a bulwark against your benefits being cut.
这笔基金是防止你的福利受损的保障。 - We give them the love of justice& the bulwark against violence and oppression, and the respository of human dignity.
我们要教给他们对正义的热爱&正义是暴力和压迫的防洪堤,是人类尊严的源泉。 - But the bulwark of our defense is the national militia, which in the present state of our intelligence and population must render us invincible.
但是,我们国防的中流砥柱是武装的全国人民,以我们现在的智慧和人口情况,这一定使我们战无不胜。 - My savings were to be a bulwark against unemployment.
我的积蓄是我失业时的保障。 - Bulwark plate to be thickened and stiffener to be added in way of mooring hole.
在设置导缆孔处舷墙板增加板厚和加强筋。 - The US, meanwhile, must also play a constructive part, and must resist the urge to use Japan, its main Pacific ally, as a bulwark to contain China and curb its rising influence.
与此同时,美国也必须扮演一个具有建设性的角色,同时坚决抵制美国国内呼声,不把日本这个美国在太平洋地区的主要盟国,用来牵制中国和限制其影响力的堡垒。 - In the face of dog-eat-dog International Rice market, only by consummateing rice standards, increasing investment, heightening inspective level, can we breach the technical bulwark and green barrier, and step into process of changing from big rice production country to rice trade great-power country.
面对竞争激烈的国际大米生产,我国惟有完善稻米标准,加大投入,提高检测水平,才能突破技术壁垒和绿色壁垒,实现由稻米生产大国向稻米强国的转变。 - A bulwark and a pillar the West may yet wish to retain.
壁垒和基石是西方都需要保存的。 - The agency is our last bulwark against North Korean aggression.
该机构是我们抵御北韩侵略的最后堡垒/最后防线。 - It has also mitigated the worst effects of the recent financial crisis and has provided a bulwark against the protectionism that might well have ensued.
此外,该组织缓和了最近金融危机的最糟糕影响,并提供了一个屏障,防范很可能随之出现的保护主义势头。