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bastion

/bas-chuhn, -tee-uhn/US // ˈbæs tʃən, -ti ən //UK // (ˈbæstɪən) //

堡垒,基地,城堡,垒石

Related Words

stronghold堡垒,要塞,阵地,寨子mainstay中流砥柱,中坚力量,主流,主干citadel堡垒,城堡,碉堡,要塞fortress堡垒,堡寨,堡壘,堡堡bulwark堡垒,斗牛场,斗牛士,壁垒parapet栏杆,护栏,拦腰斩断,拦腰斩protection保护,保护措施,保护工作,保护作用fortification工事,筑城,筑堤,设防support支持,支助,支撑,支持率prop榰defense辩护,防卫,防守,防御rock岩石,摇滚,石头,磐石breastwork胸墙,胸围,乳房工作,乳房工作原理tower of strength力量之塔,力量塔,实力之塔,实力塔

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Fortification. a projecting portion of a rampart or fortification that forms an irregular pentagon attached at the base to the main work.
    • : a fortified place.
    • : anything seen as preserving or protecting some quality, condition, etc.: a bastion of solitude; a bastion of democracy.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounsupport; fortified place
Synonyms
bulwark堡垒,斗牛场,斗牛士,壁垒citadel堡垒,城堡,碉堡,要塞fortress堡垒,堡寨,堡壘,堡堡mainstay中流砥柱,中坚力量,主流,主干stronghold堡垒,要塞,阵地,寨子breastwork胸墙,胸围,乳房工作,乳房工作原理defense辩护,防卫,防守,防御fortification工事,筑城,筑堤,设防parapet栏杆,护栏,拦腰斩断,拦腰斩prop榰protection保护,保护措施,保护工作,保护作用rock岩石,摇滚,石头,磐石support支持,支助,支撑,支持率tower of strength力量之塔,力量塔,实力之塔,实力塔

Examples

  • Since launching in 2018, Parler’s leaders have framed the social network as one of the last bastions of free speech online, building a fan base of annoyed conservatives who argue they had been silenced everywhere else.

  • Until very recently, the Atlanta area wasn’t a liberal bastion.

  • This week Bentley, that bastion of British luxury, became the latest OEM to set a date for that happening—the year 2030.

  • Overnight, they morphed from bastions of leisure into pariahs of the sea, floating hotspots crammed with tourists, sick and well.

  • The capital city, a liberal bastion, was so inundated by September that it had to cut off applications at 6,000.

  • Are the Brogpas of Kashmir in India really the last bastion of purebred Aryans?

  • The tweets linking to the National Review, that bastion of LGBT equality.

  • But that was not to be, and Kansas will continue as a Republican bastion for the foreseeable future.

  • Even in New York City, a place that touts itself as a progressive bastion, Sikhs have suffered a string of hate crimes.

  • Until that equation tips, individual Republicans may break ranks on gay rights, but the party remains a countercultural bastion.

  • It showed like a hollow bastion, filled with insurgent fire, flung up to heaven.

  • The principal bas-relief is a huge square panel, graven on the face of a rock bastion which immediately overhangs the stream.

  • You thought yourself well out of it, and were stopped by a bastion.

  • The massive wall which forms a corner of the green yard is a bastion of the city wall in the time of Edward IV.

  • For several hours they held a bastion, the possession of which was deemed highly important by both Turks and Christians.

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