bulwarks

英 [ˈbʊlwəks]

美 [ˈbʊlwərks]

n.  保护者，防御者(指人或事物); 堡垒; 防御工事; (船的)舷墙
bulwark的复数

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。

双语例句

• He had pitched, as I have said, against the bulwarks, where he lay like some horrible, ungainly sort of puppet;
  我刚才已经说过，他滑到了舷樯旁，像个可怕而丑恶的傀儡一样躺在那里。
• Draw thee water for the siege, build up thy bulwarks: go into the clay, and tread, work it and make brick.
  你应吸水防备围困，应巩固你的堡垒，踏黏土，踩胶泥，紧握砖型。
• However, to fully realize the regional economic cooperation, the administrative bulwarks in different regions should be eliminated.
  然而要真正实现区域经济深度合作，必须破除地方间存在的行政壁垒。
• SA8000 is an international social accountability management system. The social accountability rules compose trade bulwarks. Its also superiority resource of international competition, from the aspect of development.
  SA是国际统一执行的社会责任管理体系，其规定的社会责任规则，一方面看来构成了贸易壁垒，而从发展的角度看则是参与国际竞争的优势资源。
• The prime cause of green bulwarks lies in the disequilibrium of socio-economy development between the developed countries and the developing countries, and the disequilibrium is nearly impossible to change in short period.
  绿色壁垒存在的根本原因在于发达国家与发展中国家不平衡的社会经济发展水平，这种不平衡在短期内很难改变。
• Health ( along with education and pensions) used to be provided through government enterprises in cities and communes in the countryside, both bulwarks of the state that have disintegrated in recent years, leaving a vacuum to be filled by a user-pays system.
  过去，医疗（以及教育和养老金）由城市中的国有企业和农村公社买单。而最近几年，政府的这两大堡垒已经瓦解，留下了一个由用者自付体系来填补的真空。
• He ran to the bulwarks as soon as the wave was passed, saw me, and lost me, and saw me again, as I tumbled in the roost.
  浪头一过，他马上奔到船上，看见我在汹涌澎湃的巨浪中挣扎，一会儿沉下，一会儿浮起。
• For a long time he was too happy to speak, and could only gaze at the sea and the sun and feel the bulwarks and the ropes, as if to make sure he was really awake, while tears rolled down his cheeks.
  他高兴得久久说不出话来，只会眼望着大海和太阳，摸着舷墙和缆绳，仿佛要使自己相信他的确醒着，脸上泪水滚滚直流。
• This text analyzed the abroad characteristics towards our country agricultural produce export put technique bulwarks, and how to break the abroad technique bulwarks, and increase our country of agricultural product export.
  分析了国外对我国农产品出口实施技术壁垒的特点，阐述了如何突破国外技术壁垒，促进农产品出口。这一技术可以增加3dB带宽。
• Surgery and X-irradiation nevertheless remain the bulwarks of cancer treatment throughout the world.
  外科手术和X射线疗法依然是全世界治疗癌症的主要方法。