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moat

/moht/US // moʊt //UK // (məʊt) //

壕沟,壕堑,壕水河,壕壕的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • 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.