fifth column

第五纵队第五列第五栏第五专栏

fifth column 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a group of people who act traitorously and subversively out of a secret sympathy with an enemy of their country.
  2. Franco sympathizers in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War: so called in allusion to a statement in 1936 that the insurgents had four columns marching on Madrid and a fifth column of sympathizers in the city ready to rise and betray it.

fifth column 近义词

n. 名词 noun

secret or subversive group

更多fifth column例句

  1. But on Thursday Boxer triggered a Golden State political earthquake, announcing that she would not seek a fifth term in 2016.
  2. Sometimes a column has the economy and rhythm of a short story.
  3. Later that night, that same black-and-red banner would be seen again—in the column of marchers chanting for dead cops.
  4. He branded it a fifth-column invasion into popular culture, normalizing radical, even communist ambitions.
  5. Insult to injury, its $43 million gross was less than one-fifth of what Ted took in.
  6. These Rules (leaving out the Tenor) serves for five bells; and leaving out the fifth and Tenor, they serve for four bells.
  7. After about the forty-fifth year it becomes gradually less; after seventy-five years it is about one-half the amount given.
  8. My two eyes haven't quite the same focal length and this often puts me out of the straight with a column of figures.
  9. Ordinarily the diazo appears a little earlier than the Widal reaction—about the fourth or fifth day—but it may be delayed.
  10. In the next two days he re-wrote the twenty thousand, and on the fifth day he tore it into shreds and threw it to the winds.