sortie

/sawr-tee/US // ˈsɔr ti //UK // (ˈsɔːtɪ) //

架次,架次的

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- : a body of troops involved in such a movement.
- : the flying of an airplane on a combat mission.

v.无主动词 verb

nounarmed attack

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That’s appropriate, as its agents here are engaged in a kind of war, flying constant sorties against enemy forces that could spread illness across these subtropical islands if left unchecked.
My grandfather, his father, was a WW1 ace and was on the sortie which downed the Red Baron.
Lieutenant-Colonel Abercromby, who had led the only serious sortie from Yorktown, chewed his sword in impotent rage.
Many ladies do not like to display their "sortie du soire" before a crowded room, and you will be keeping their escort waiting.
By September the enemy had opened their trenches round Perpignan, and Prignon was entrusted with a night sortie.
Bonaparte attacked Valetta, in Malta, and in a sortie the Maltese lost the standard of their order.
But the garrison made a sortie, seized the towers, destroyed them, and killed or captured the soldiers who manned them.
In a sortie Bohemond the crafty and brave was wounded; Tancred's and Godfrey's valor ended in repulse.