Siege
[siːdʒ] or [sidʒ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.
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解釋/意思:
(n.) A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne.
(n.) Hence, place or situation; seat.
(n.) Rank; grade; station; estimation.
(n.) Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter.
(n.) The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade.
(n.) Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession.
(n.) The floor of a glass-furnace.
(n.) A workman's bench.
(v. t.) To besiege; to beset.
手打:拉蒙纳
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Investment.
編輯:朱尔斯
解釋/意思:
n. a sitting down with an army round or before a fortified place in order to take it by force: a continued endeavour to gain possession: (Shak.) a seat throne station: (Shak.) excrement: the floor of a glass-furnace: a workman's bench.—v.t. to lay siege to.—ns. Siege′-piece a coin generally of unusual shape and rude workmanship issued in a besieged place during stress of siege; Siege′-train the materials carried by an army for the purpose of laying siege to a place.—State of siege a condition of things in which civil law is suspended or made subordinate to military law; Minor state of siege a modification of the more severe rule in cases of merely domestic trouble.
校對:维多利亚
娱乐性解釋/意思：
For a young woman to dream that she is in a siege, and sees cavalry around her, denotes that she will have serious drawbacks to enjoyments, but will surmount them finally, and receive much pleasure and profit from seeming disappointments.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Dana, then an officer of the War Department, accompanied me on the Vicksburg campaign and through a portion of the siege. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- If we can get them on that mine, and explode it in good time, the siege will be over, replied his nephew decisively. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- We had no siege guns except six thirty-two pounders, and there were none at the West to draw from. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He defeated the Babylonian army, under Belshazzar, outside Babylon, and then laid siege to the town. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It is this same shock-absorbing device which is used to catch the recoil on the immense siege guns used in modern warfare. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- One battery, the siege guns and all the convalescent troops were sent on by water to Brazos Santiago, at the mouth of the Rio Grande. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Rosecrans was ordered to move against the army that was detaching troops to raise the siege. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He rode through the town, visiting the wounded, and giving such orders as were necessary for the siege he meditated. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- From the time of the siege of Veii, the armies of Rome received pay for their service during the time which they remained in the field. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Undismayed by forty or fifty previous defeats, Glorvina laid siege to him. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- On the 10th of December the siege of Savannah commenced. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I believe it was largely through his efforts and his advice that our siege was successful. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- What wonder then, in time of siege, want, extreme heat, and drought, that it should make unaccustomed ravages? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- It was midwinter and during the siege we had rain and snow, thawing and freezing alternately. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- What a ridicule we make waiting here and laying siege to dead men. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- They have braved the storms and sieges of three thousand years, and have been shaken by many an earthquake, but still they stand. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He was left in the air, incapable of conducting sieges or establishing conquests. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- One word, in truth, had alarmed her more than battles or sieges, during which she trusted Raymond's high command would exempt him from danger. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Before his time catapults had been used in sieges, but never in battles. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Gibraltar has stood several protracted sieges, one of them of nearly four years' duration (it failed), and the English only captured it by stratagem. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- There followed the most obstinate and dreadful of sieges. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- For the standing of sieges Semitic peoples hold the palm. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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