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blockade

/blo-keyd/US // blɒˈkeɪd //UK // (blɒˈkeɪd) //

封堵,封杀,封锁,封闭

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n.名词 noun
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    • : the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
    • : any obstruction of passage or progress: We had difficulty in getting through the blockade of bodyguards.
    • : Pathology. interruption or inhibition of a normal physiological signal, as a nerve impulse or a heart muscle–contraction impulse.
v.有主动词 verb
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    block·ad·ed, block·ad·ing.

    • : to subject to a blockade.

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Examples

  • Beijing imposed new tariffs and blockades on Australian imports shortly after the resolution passed, even though the scope of the investigation is much smaller than what Canberra had hoped for.

  • On a recent morning at Zhou’s third-floor walk-up apartment, he and his colleague, Ouyang Ruoyu, took out their phones to demonstrate the blockade.

  • Apple is hoping to remove enough critics that they can get away with their blockade on competition.

  • Facing a blockade similar to what TikTok and WeChat now face, ZTE cut a deal.

  • It was the longest internet blockade ever in the democratic world.

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin pounced quickly Sunday, denouncing the economic blockade of the Donbas.

  • A blockade would have rapidly cut off Pakistan from oil supplies.

  • Few, if any, are from Gaza, partly because of the blockade and partly because Hamas has pushed gays even deeper into the closet.

  • At 23 years old he has lived under the blockade for almost a third of his life and he is fed up.

  • But Karim has been without work since Hamas seized power in Gaza in 2007 and Israel imposed its seven-year blockade.

  • President Lincoln had declared a blockade of the Southern ports as soon as the war had started.

  • The tumbled masses of slate-stratum fallen over one another was a proof that the blockade had been recently made.

  • The sea trade of the country had been destroyed by the vigorous blockade which the Dutch ships of war maintained along the coast.

  • This outbreak led to a joint British and German blockade, which seriously hampered trade operations.

  • This paper blockade was the challenge which called forth the Berlin Decree from Napoleon.