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pentagon

/pen-tuh-gon, -guhn/US // ˈpɛn təˌgɒn, -gən //UK // (ˈpɛntəˌɡɒn) //

五角大楼,五角形,五角大厦,五边形

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a polygon having five angles and five sides.
    • : the Pentagon, a building in Arlington, Virginia, having a plan in the form of a regular pentagon, containing most U.S. Defense Department offices.the U.S. Department of Defense; the U.S. military establishment.

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Examples

  • Pentagon leaders agree to a person that the U.S. war against ISIS is succeeding.

  • “I think it is important to say it is too soon to judge success or failure,” said Col. Steven Warren, a Pentagon spokesman.

  • Granted, James is in an office in the Pentagon, and not on the front lines.

  • The Pentagon said Faal served in the Air Force for seven years, during which time he became a U.S. citizen.

  • But the program is just six weeks long, the Pentagon admitted Monday.

  • Apparently he got his communication from the Pentagon about the time I got mine.

  • They circled the Pentagon with hundreds of protestors and said a magic spell that was supposed to levitate it.

  • The trick was to come up with something with the media friendliness of the levitation of the Pentagon.

  • Miles went on to say that he had just been conferring with Ahlgren at the Pentagon.

  • Monroe is a five-bastioned fort of masonry work, and accordingly might be roughly described as a huge pentagon.