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alamo

/al-uh-moh, ah-luh-/US // ˈæl əˌmoʊ, ˈɑ lə- //UK // (ˈæləˌməʊ) //

阿拉马,阿拉莫,阿拉木图

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural al·a·mos.Southwestern U.S.

    • : a poplar.

Examples

  • For those who considered Texas independence a good thing, the Alamo became part of the Texas founding myth, and its defenders were treated as martyrs.

  • They get more mileage out of Collins, who compiled a collection of memorabilia related to the Alamo.

  • In the end, the siege at the Alamo ended up costing him all of four days.

  • The men at the Alamo fought and died because they had no choice.

  • Even as the nation is undergoing a sweeping reassessment of its racial history, and despite decades of academic research that casts the Texas Revolt and the Alamo’s siege in a new light, little of this has permeated the conversation in Texas.

  • According to League, Alamo Drafthouse was actively working with Sony on Monday on the possibility of screening The Interview.

  • For them, this is a battle every bit as symbolic and important as the Alamo once was to Americans.

  • As a boy in Alamo, a tiny Mormon ranching community in Lincoln County 90 miles north of Las Vegas, Lamb was one of 11 children.

  • This show started as a one-off joke at the Alamo Drafthouse in 2007 after viewing this.

  • According to Watts, the moms staged a counter event, one mile away from the Alamo protest.

  • Not being sufficiently numerous to hold out the town as well as the Alamo, they retreated into the latter.

  • Well, we couldn't even think Bunker Hill but what she'd pipe up about the Alamo.

  • In 1785 the troops were obliged to retire into the Alamo at San Antonio, in order to be secured from their raids.

  • On the approach of Santa Anna, they took refuge in the Alamo, about half a mile to the north of the town.

  • Her route took her through Alamo plaza again, and the streets which still bore witness to the presence of the Carnival.