bulwark是什么意思_bulwark怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes;"they stormed the ramparts of the city"
"they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down"

a fencelike structure around a deck (usually plural)

a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away

Verb:

defend with a bulwark

中英词源

bulwark 防御，堡垒

来自荷兰语。bul, 同bole, 树干。wark, 同work, 工作。原指对船只所做的加固和防御工作。后指堡垒。衍生单词boulevard, 大道。

bulwark: bulwark: [15] Bulwark comes from Middle High German bolwerc ‘fortification’, a compound formed from bole ‘plank’ (the same word as English bole ‘tree trunk’) and werc, equivalent to English work. It thus originally meant ‘rampart constructed out of planks or tree trunks’. The word was shared by other Germanic languages, including Swedish bolverk, and French borrowed it as boullewerc, which has since become boulevard.
=> bole, boulevard, work
bulwark (n.): "planking or woodwork round the uppermost parts of a vessel," early 15c., from Middle Dutch bulwerke or Middle High German bolwerc, probably from bole "plank, tree trunk" (from Proto-Germanic *bul-, from PIE root *bhel- (2) "to blow, swell;" see bole) + werc "work" (see work (n.)). Figurative sense "means of defense or security" is from 1570s.

词态变化

复数 bulwarks;
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权威造句

1. a bulwark against extremism: 坚决反对极端主义者

2. Our people"s support is a bulwark against the enemy.: 人民的支持是御敌的强大力量.

3. That country is a bulwark of freedom.: 那个国家是自由的堡垒.

4. Law and morality are the bulwark of society.: 法律和道德是社会的防御工具.

5. The House of Lords is the only bulwark of democracy in this country.: 在这个国家，上议院是唯一的民主堡垒。

近反义词

bulwark plating 舷墙板

bulwark rail 舷墙扶手

bulwark stay 舷墙支柱

相似短语

bulwark plating 舷墙板

bulwark stay 舷墙支柱

main bulwark rail 主甲板舷墙栏杆

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