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artillery

/ahr-til-uh-ree/US // ɑrˈtɪl ə ri //UK // (ɑːˈtɪlərɪ) //

炮兵,炮兵部队,大炮,炮火

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : mounted projectile-firing guns or missile launchers, mobile or stationary, light or heavy, as distinguished from small arms.
    • : the troops or the branch of an army concerned with the use and service of such weapons.
    • : the science that treats of the use of such weapons.

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Examples

  • Eastern Taiwan’s terrain is mountainous, and many of the 100-plus islands that make up Taiwan are riddled with tunnels, bunkers and artillery.

  • This could include superior numbers of soldiers, better-positioned and longer-ranged artillery, or simply picking a fight in the right place where an opponent is unprepared.

  • This can be applied to every kind of blast, from a grenade to an artillery round or a plane-dropped bomb.

  • Nedergaard’s interpretation is that more experienced runners are able to zone out during easy training runs, whereas novice runners have to deploy the heavy self-talk artillery pretty much all the time to get through their runs.

  • ISIS had tanks, artillery systems, and even 155‑ millimeter Howitzers they had taken from Iraqi forces, who had received the equipment from America.

  • Artillery fire could be heard in Avtozavodsky district, on Chernyshevskogo and Putin avenues in downtown Grozny.

  • The other subject he taught at VMI was something he knew a great deal about, too: artillery.

  • In fact, he taught the most intensive artillery course in the South and very likely the equal of courses at West Point.

  • The “tactical” side of artillery—its use on a battlefield—was something Jackson was not called upon to explain.

  • Jackson fared better as an instructor of artillery, a subject he was far better at explaining.

  • The Mexican artillery soon laid a part of the fort in ruins.

  • They found a few belated sowars of the 3d Cavalry, who took refuge in a wood, and the artillery opened fire at the trees!

  • Two artillery subalterns who had fought their way through a mob stricken with panic for the moment, soon arrived.

  • The artillery and 81st were on the right of the line, the native infantry in the center, and the sowars on the left.

  • In a few minutes the native troops found themselves confronted by the 81st and the two batteries of artillery.