moat 的定义
- a deep, wide trench, usually filled with water, surrounding the rampart of a fortified place, as a town or a castle.
- any similar trench, as one used for confining animals in a zoo.
moat 近义词
ditch
更多moat例句
- According to local media, Hebei’s leaders have committed to defending the capital, pledging the province will act as a “political moat” around Beijing, protecting it from the viral spread.
- For Hawaii, the Pacific Ocean has helped serve as the world’s biggest moat.
- So if the prince’s castle has a moat, Cinderella might be able to make a grand entrance from a pumpkin after all.
- With the rollout of the new campaign format, Snapchat is widening its moat against TikTok and other challengers for short-form video budgets.
- Broadcast and cable are highly geographic but the franchise value becomes higher because of the regulatory moat.
- But over the years, cloistered in their mountain keep, complete with moat, Bender and Patton became ever more reclusive.
- The brain is a castle and this is its moat, as experts have described it.
- Thinking to escape and summon assistance from the cantonment, Douglas mounted the wall and leaped into the moat.
- The house itself was built nearly two hundred years earlier and was later surrounded by a moat as a further means of defense.
- But the Scots tower proved useless, for its wheels stuck in the mud of the moat, and it could not be got up to the wall.
- He'll immediately throw down his bunch of flowers and dive despairingly into the moat.
- An ornamental lake indicates where once was the moat, but the outlines of the walls are shown only by grass-covered ridges.