land mine
地雷,地震,地面地雷,陆地上的地雷
Definitions
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Military.
- : an explosive charge concealed just under the surface of the ground or of a roadway, designed to be detonated by pressure, proximity of a vehicle or person, etc.
- : aerial mine.
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The tiny single-celled organisms have even been trained to glow when they encounter TNT, the chemical trace of landmines, to enable humanitarian organizers to spot explosives and eventually remove them.
At the same time, those same marketers are increasingly expected to take a stand on potentially brand-busting landmines like politics and civil unrest.
The world had become a different place and I found myself unequipped to interpret a whole new landmine-strewn nomenclature.
Chayefsky first set words down on paper after convalescing from injuries suffered from an exploding landmine.
Moments later, he activated a landmine, resulting in his death, leaving those color images as his final photographs.
Her famous walk—twice—through the half cleared landmine field in Angola was enormously brave and made a lasting impact.
The picture became one of the most celebrated anti-landmine images.