beachhead

1 Aside from the low ringing of the buoy offshore, it was all so quiet that Turner thought he could hear the tide pulling away from the gravelly beachhead.

2 Khalid Pitts and his wife, Diane, opened Cork, a wine bar, 10 years ago, taking over the spot of an indie coffee shop that was one of 14th Street’s first hipster beachheads.

3 This is already a good idea on general principle, but backed-up water, moist leaves and other debris in dirty gutters make a perfect beachhead for pests on their way into your home.

4 As the young man tries on this new identity, his old neighborhood becomes a beachhead for Islamic extremists, and Youssef enters a dangerous vortex of class war and violence.

5 It was like watching an army of prehistoric creatures taking refuge on a beachhead.

6 The Israeli military, according to the Pentagon, is providing security on the beachhead, and the U.N. is coordinating the delivery of supplies to people in Gaza.

7 By reputation a land of bling, it is where the luxury brands that line ritzy avenues around the world have established their Korean beachheads.

8 It was not easy for us to break out from our beachhead.

9 The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or on the next.

参与诺曼底登陆的战士有这样的信仰–他们所做的是对的，他们在为人类战役，公正的上帝会在这个海滩或那个海滩施下怜惜。

10 General Lucas confined himself to occupying his beachhead and having equipment and vehicles brought ashore.

卢卡斯将军专心致志于占领滩头堡,并使装备和车辆登岸.

11 Closer to home, the ever-expanding market means our own DC Brau is regularly available in Philadelphia and New Jersey, and breweries from many states away are fighting for a beachhead in our area.

12 As a beachhead to attack America.

作为桥头堡来攻打美国。

13 Gradually we extended our beachhead on Bougainville, pushing farther into that wet island.

14 After describing the failed attempts to establish a beachhead, Mr. Lawler jumps from the 1580s to the 20th century, when fortune hunters tried to resolve the colonists’ fate.

15 And I tell you, we are ready to seize that beachhead.

我告诉你，我们愿意抓住这一滩头。

16 You've got 4 hours to break through to that beachhead down here.

你得在4小时内，突破到下面的海滩。

17 Where the Allies had won the critical battle for air supremacy was not over the beachhead.

在尚未结束的滩头阵地对决中，盟军赢得了关键的制空权的胜利。

18 In fact, Space Ninety 8 can be considered a preservationist gesture, a middle-class beachhead against creeping luxury at every turn.

19 The masterworks of postwar auteurs were not easy to see, and the Film Society of Lincoln Center provided a beachhead and a clearinghouse, an alternative to network television and Times Square.

20 Mr. Beevor begins with the terrible fighting in the Hurtgen Forest in 1944, the end of the great advance that had begun when the allies broke out of the Normandy beachheads.

1 桥头堡

bridgehead

2 据点

stronghold foothold redoubt bridgehead lodgment strongpoint

3 滩头阵地

bridgehead

4 出发点

start base Mark foundation springboard jump-off terminus a quo jumping off place

5 立足点

foothold bridgehead lodgment