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tandem-compound

/tan-duhm-kom-pound/US // ˈtæn dəmˌkɒm paʊnd //

串联复式,串联复合物,串联化合物,串联复合

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having high-pressure and low-pressure units in tandem.

Examples

  • He scrambled outside to find a 25-foot-wide crater just beyond the mud wall surrounding his family compound.

  • Less than 30 minutes after the firefight started, commandos entered the compound and found the mortally wounded hostages.

  • They say that the Israelis framed him in order to light the powder keg of religious war over the al-Aqsa compound.

  • The Holy City, specifically the al-Aqsa compound, has been the flashpoint for the latest round of conflict.

  • Now the lead breacher explained how he cut through the steel doors bin Laden used to seal himself into the compound at night.

  • He, with others, thinking the miss-sahib had gone to church, was smoking the hookah of gossip in a neighboring compound.

  • They held the compound against repeated assaults, and lost several men in hand-to-hand fighting.

  • Passing a bungalow that was blazing furiously, he saw in the compound the corpses of two women.

  • The body of a young woman was found in the compound outside my bungalow, done to death in precisely the same way.

  • The compound was washed on the fifth of May, and a grain of gold weighing one and one-half reals was obtained.