battue 的定义
plural bat·tues [ba-tooz, -tyooz; French ba-ty]. /bæˈtuz, -ˈtyuz; French baˈtü/. Chiefly British.
- Hunting. the beating or driving of game from cover toward a stationary hunter.a hunt or hunting party using this method of securing game.
- undiscriminating slaughter of defenseless or unresisting crowds.
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- These birds are especially on the spot when the blacks set fire to the bush and organise a big battue.
- My hosts had evidently had a recent battue, or fire hunt, for they had a most extraordinary stock of food.
- We all now came together, exulting in the fine fortune we had met with, for we had made a regular battue of it.
- I can promise you plenty of hunting adventures; and, when the proper season arrives, we shall have a grand battue of the beavers.
- The lions were now caught and kept in cages, until they were turned out for a royal battue.