Fortress
['fɔːtrɪs] or ['fɔrtrəs]
解释:
(n.) A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.
(v. t.) To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.
编辑:马里奥
同义词及近义词：
n. Fortification, fort, stronghold, castle, citadel, fortified place (of great magnitude).
校对:露辛达
解释:
n. a fortified place: a defence.—v.t. (Shak.) to guard.
整理:利亚
娱乐性解释：
To dream that you are confined in a fortress, denotes that enemies will succeed in placing you in an undesirable situation. To put others in a fortress, denotes your ability to rule in business or over women.
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例句:
- This he made into a great naval fortress. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I inquired the name of the garrison of the fortress of Malabat, and they said it was Mehemet Ali Ben Sancom. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The piece of ordnance referred to, was mounted in a separate fortress, constructed of lattice-work. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Longwy had fallen, the great fortress of Verdun followed, and nothing seemed likely to stop the march of the allies upon the capital. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I went back, full of encouragement, and reported to the guide, and asked him to discharge this dismantled fortress. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- You were a cannonier that day there, and you were among the first to enter the accursed fortress when it fell. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Yes, I said, but that was a special case because it was a fortress rather than a mountain, anyway. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- The Colosseum at Rome, for example, the arena of many great gladiatorial shows, was converted into a fortress, and so was the amphitheatre at Arles. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- They sailed from Fortress Monroe on that day. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- It does this by scooping out shovelfuls of dirt, first with one of its hind feet and then with the other, and heaping it up like the wall of a fortress around the pit. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The small garrisons were drawn from the various towns and fortresses, and went to swell the main army. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Smooth-bore cannon and mortars of cast-iron and bronze are still retained in some fortresses, though rifled cannon are the only type now made. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- They built sturdy fortresses of the Myc?nean type of architecture; they had a metal industry; they used imported Greek pottery of a very fine type. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- His houses were all built in the form of castles, and seem to have been the principal fortresses which he possessed. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
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