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breastwork

/brest-wurk/US // ˈbrɛstˌwɜrk //UK // (ˈbrɛstˌwɜːk) //

胸墙,胸围,乳房工作,乳房工作原理

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Fortification.

    • : a defensive work, usually breast high.

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Examples

  • My station was on the right of the line, where the breastwork, ending in a redoubt, was steep and high.

  • Our camp was enclosed with a solid wall of the dead—a bulwark, a breastwork, of corpses, you may say.

  • I found the reserves had thrown up a breastwork from the Ohio 348 to the Kanawha, thus inclosing the camp on the Point.

  • He was on the crest of the hill, and at every lull in the strife his men piled the loose stones into a rude breastwork.

  • They move upon the run,—up to the breastwork of rails,—bearing Hancock's line to the top of the ridge,—so powerful their momentum.

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