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barbed wire

带刺铁丝,带刺铁丝网,有刺铁丝,有刺铁丝网

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a wire or strand of wires having small pieces of sharply pointed wire twisted around it at short intervals, used chiefly for fencing in livestock, keeping out trespassers, etc.

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  • A teenager, sometimes two or three, falls for an undercover detective’s offers and ends up locked behind barbed wire.

  • The buildings, which are connected by roads and dominated by towering barbed wire, look like sturdy blocks.

  • In addition, 340 miles of barbed wire fences have fragmented habitat, impacted animal crossings, and deterred the general public from exploring nearly a third of their park.

  • Jury selection began this week in a courthouse surrounded by concrete barricades and high fencing topped with barbed wire, amid fears of fresh civil unrest in a city still scarred by last year’s violence.

  • To close the mouth, you either sew the jaw together internally and through the nose, or you have this thing called the needle injector where you shoot a little barbed wire into the top gums and bottom gums and then tie the jaw together with wire.

  • And extortion makes a lot more sense before a story hits the news wire, not after.

  • As zealots poured in from Arkansas and Mississippi, a wire service reporter got punched in the ribs.

  • At that point, a tall, brown-haired man with wire-rimmed glasses came over to me, sat down, and peppered me with questions.

  • To Hitchcock, this is not a sweet wire from an old colleague but a condolence letter on the occasion of his own death.

  • On the day of the AFI dinner, Hitchcock receives a wire from Frank Capra, who is in Palm Springs.

  • That the weather being calm, he rowed round me several times, observed my windows and wire-lattices that defenced them.

  • They require frequent cleaning with a long wire and a bit of tow, and in some large towns there are professional pipe-cleaners.

  • Wire Nails, Staples, &c., are made at Nettlefold's by machinery much in advance of what can ba seen elsewhere.

  • I need fourteen wire ropes, all pulling in different directions, to hold me steady.

  • The Post Office arrangements were also of a very primitive character, nor was there any wire nearer than Thetford.