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
  1. a bulwark against extremism
     坚决反对极端主义者
• 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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

英英释义

noun

• a protective structure of stone or concrete
  Synonym:breakwatergroingroynemoleseawalljetty
• a fencelike structure around a deck (usually plural)
• an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
  1. they stormed the ramparts of the city
  2. they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down
  Synonym:rampartwall

verb

• defend with a bulwark

双语例句

• The soldiers kept their heads down behind the bulwark.
  士兵们保持头低低地在堡垒的后面。
• As more and more Chinese medical devices come into EU and world markets, new technical bulwark must emerge in our inspection technology and standards of medical devices.
  随着我国越来越多的医疗器械产品进入欧盟和世界市场，必将对中国的医疗器械检验技术和标准提出了新的技术壁垒。
• 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。
• My fantasies were a moral bulwark that enabled me to feel I was keeping my emotional integrity whole.
  我的种种幻想都是一种道义上的保障，使我感到我在保持自己感情尊严的完整性。
• We have seen the necessity of the Union, as our bulwark against foreign danger ( bJames Madison)
  我们已看到联盟的必要性，就如同建立用来抵御敌国入侵危险的壁垒一样必要（b詹姆斯麦迪逊）
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Law is the bulwark of society.
  法律是社会的保障。
• We were a bulwark against bolshevism.
  我们是对抗布尔什维克的壁垒。