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patrol

/puh-trohl/US // pəˈtroʊl //UK // (pəˈtrəʊl) //

巡逻,巡逻队,巡查,巡视

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
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    pa·trolled, pa·trol·ling.

    • : to pass along a road, beat, etc., or around or through a specified area in order to maintain order and security.
v.有主动词 verb
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    pa·trolled, pa·trol·ling.

    • : to maintain the order and security of by passing along or through it.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or group of persons assigned to patrol an area, road, etc.
    • : an automobile, ship, plane, squadron, fleet, etc., assigned to patrol an area.
    • : Military. a detachment of two or more persons, often a squad or platoon, detailed for reconnaissance or combat.
    • : the act of patrolling.
    • : patrol wagon.
    • : a subdivision of a troop, usually consisting of about eight members.

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Examples

  • Brooks recounts with vivid detail her experiences in the police academy and as an officer on patrol.

  • High-paying “extra duty” jobs — like sitting in a patrol car monitoring traffic at a road construction site — are also protected by the contracts.

  • Anderson says the 9-year-old started screaming, “I want my dad,” and resisted the officers’ efforts to get her into the patrol car.

  • Two days later, Emery ordered the agency to study the issue of chokeholds in a bid to understand why they were the focus of so many complaints against police officers despite the patrol guide’s ban.

  • To date, none of the patrol unions have ever gone on strike.

  • Then they came up against a police patrol on mountain bicycles, which again led to more shooting, without injuries.

  • “They just walk around, they ride in their patrol cars, and they just pass by,” he said.

  • With the midterm elections safely in the rearview mirror, Obama is on legacy patrol.

  • Brinsley stepped up to the passenger side of the patrol car, raised a silver Taurus semi-automatic pistol and began firing.

  • Hundreds of cops saluting as the bodies were rolled out with a full escort by highway patrol.

  • "Hon'lable p'lice patrol come 'long plenty soon," murmured Sin Sin Wa.

  • They mewed like cats at the approach of the patrol, and crowed like cocks when a likely victim approached.

  • He was not of the Allied Patrol nor of any branch of the police force that encircled the world in its operations.

  • Nor did the voluble and sulphurous orders to halt that a patrol-ship flashed north.

  • The patrol-ship was on station; she was lost far astern before she could gather speed for pursuit.