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trench on

/trench/US // trɛntʃ //UK // (trɛntʃ) //

挖地三尺,抓紧时间,挖坑的时候,挖坑

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n.名词 noun
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    • : Fortification. a long, narrow excavation in the ground, the earth from which is thrown up in front to serve as a shelter from enemy fire or attack.
    • : trenches, a system of such excavations, with their embankments, etc.
    • : a deep furrow, ditch, or cut.
    • : Oceanography. a long, steep-sided, narrow depression in the ocean floor.
v.有主动词 verb
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    • : to surround or fortify with trenches; entrench.
    • : to cut a trench in.
    • : to set or place in a trench.
    • : to form by cutting into or through something.
    • : to make a cut in; cut into; carve.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to dig a trench.
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    • : trench on / upon to encroach or infringe on.to come close to; verge on: His remarks were trenching on poor taste.

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Examples

  • Now, let’s return to the trenches and talk about what’s going on up front.

  • I’m looking at a trench on part of a 7,500-acre ranch outside Big Timber, Montana.

  • Ranch owner Kevin Halverson, 70, spent the morning shoveling snow out of the trench.

  • As trenches flooded, bomb craters on the battlefield filled with muddy water and swallowed artillery, horses, and people.

  • If there are a half-dozen “Floridas,” one of them is sure to be Wisconsin, home to some of the closest elections and nastiest partisan trench warfare of the past decade.

  • You don't bag something and leave it by the trench while you go back to the truck for your lunch.

  • Early airpower theorists were not only repelled by trench warfare.

  • The guys that I was partnering with early on wanted the logo to be a guy opening his trench coat.

  • The goal was to get a human being to the bottom of the Mariana Trench for the first time since Cameron was a 5-year-old.

  • And the highlight for me was touching down at the bottom of the trench.

  • No word of the bombs and trench mortars I asked for six weeks ago, but the "bayonets" are coming in liberally now.

  • I asked him if that amounted to one shell per yard and he said the whole length of the trench was less than 100 yards.

  • The band took up a position in an old Spanish trench and played as the troops filed past along the beach.

  • The Anzacs are very much depressed to hear they are to get no more bombs for their six Japanese trench mortars.

  • On their march the Americans had to fight a hidden foe who slipped from trench to trench, or found safety in the woods.