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barricade

/bar-i-keyd, bar-i-keyd/US // ˈbær ɪˌkeɪd, ˌbær ɪˈkeɪd //UK // (ˌbærɪˈkeɪd, ˈbærɪˌkeɪd) //

路障,障碍物,街垒,拦截

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a defensive barrier hastily constructed, as in a street, to stop an enemy.
    • : any barrier that obstructs passage.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    bar·ri·cad·ed, bar·ri·cad·ing.

    • : to obstruct or block with a barricade: barricading the streets to prevent an attack.
    • : to shut in and defend with or as if with a barricade: The rebels had barricaded themselves in the old city.

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Examples

  • After swarming through barricades, rioters forced their way inside.

  • In 1971 he helped organize the May Day demonstrations in Washington, where protesters — thousands of whom were arrested — erected barricades throughout the District to voice their opposition to the war.

  • Police blocked access to the court with metal barricades, and dozens of riot police lined the streets as mounted units patrolled the area.

  • They should be stopped before they can do that — stopped where they are now — not at barricades that wall off our elected representatives from the people they serve.

  • Farmers used tractors to tear down police barricades, and videos of police attacking protesting farmers circulated on social media.

  • Sarah stood by the police barricade with her 12-year-old sister, Mary, and their mother, Rada.

  • A white police officer standing amid the crowd inside the barricade got his laughs a moment later.

  • (Rioters) were building a barricade across Winchester Street and looking for material.

  • In front of the City Hall building hundreds of tires have been piled up to form a barricade that is manned by yet more masked men.

  • They made a barricade of metal junk and acted as human shields to stop the train proceeding.

  • Across the middle of the cage a stout barricade has been erected, and behind the barricade sits the Master, pale but defiant.

  • The besiegers forced the advance barricade, burned the drawbridge, and fired the gate.

  • Then she issued her commands to the men, and fiercely she bade them pull down that barricade and take the dog alive.

  • He would go alone if he must; no barricade of unearthly beasts could hold him from the great adventure.

  • First there was to be seen the city itself, nestled beyond its barricade of levees.

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