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foxhole

/foks-hohl/US // ˈfɒksˌhoʊl //UK // (ˈfɒksˌhəʊl) //

散兵坑,狐狸洞,火坑,狐穴

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a small pit, usually for one or two soldiers, dug as a shelter in a battle area.

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Examples

  • Even his friends who adored the EMT lifestyle, with its sense of purpose and foxhole camaraderie, usually ended up leaving after two or three years.

  • I think there’s an awareness that we’re in the foxhole together, and there’s not a lot of us, and we’re being assaulted, and so you’ve got to be together.

  • [He tears off the tape] They stole into my foxhole at night and covered my face with Scotch tape.

  • But what if a soldier had my book in their foxhole: would they curse me or thank me?

  • Some colleagues viewed him as “calm, friendly, collected, a foxhole type of guy.”

  • So he would go from foxhole to foxhole and, by any means, would get his men to fight.

  • Nor is he likely to be found, as Saddam Hussein was, cowering in a covered foxhole.

  • A grenade had come flying into the foxhole where Dane and Harding had felt reasonably safe.

  • With morning he was half a mile away, in a foxhole less than sixty yards from the massive outer perimeter of the arena.

  • The foxhole had two entrances, both well-concealed, and he had rigged elaborate warning devices should the vicinity be approached.

  • The shower of rock is somewhat reminiscent of Ungava's meteor spray or splintered debris forced down a soldier's foxhole.

  • And while an officer wouldn't be expected to pitch a tent, he would dig his own foxhole, unless he was well up in grade.