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out·post
aUt post
复数:outposts
1757年,“军事阵地,独立于主力部队之外或营地范围之外”,源自 out- + post(n.2)。最初出现在乔治·华盛顿的信件中。短语 outpost of Empire(1895年起)“帝国最偏远的领土”,后来常常引用吉卜林的诗句:
There he shall blaze a nation’s ways with hatchet and with brand,
Till on his last-won wilderness an Empire’s outposts stand!
他将用斧头和火把开辟一条国家的道路,
直到他在最后赢得的荒野上建立起帝国的前哨站!
前哨
派出机构
派驻机构
The first known use of outpost was in 1720
outpostnoun
a guard stationed at a distance from a military force or camp
the position occupied by an outpost
a settlement on a frontier or in a faraway place
1 Like the outposts of the American West, Mir became a place for astronauts throughout the world to visit.
2 There was a Japanese outpost at Cape Torokina nearby, but our scouts thought it had only about a hundred men.
3 “The central hub where the Director and Assistant Director oversee the missions carried out by our agents around the globe. We have outposts on every continent.”
4 You'd better get petrol here,where we're going is the last outpost of civilization.
你最好在这儿加足汽油,咱们要去的算是人类文明的边缘地区。
5 After that you will go to Gibeah of God, where there is a Philistine outpost.
此后你到神的山, 在那里有非利士人的防兵.
6 Almost all communists praise Cuba, the last outpost of what was once the Soviet empire.
几乎所有的共产主义者都赞美古巴这个苏联帝国的最后一个前哨.
7 The evening I met Farmer, I was sitting on a second-story balcony of a military outpost, talking with U.S.
8 The new Russian scientific outpost in Arctic region, Pole 35, will operate for two years.
俄罗斯在北极地区新的科学前哨“北极35”将运作两年.
9 We managed to lure them from the remote outposts of our enemies.
我们设法在敌人遥远的前哨引诱他们.
10 Grytviken was a Norwegian outpost on Stromness Bay, a natural harbor at the base of the island’s rugged alpine cliffs and glaciers.
11 The Anunnaki establish outposts at the gateway to the space facilities ; Jericho is one of them.
8500年,安奴拿其在空间设备的大门上建立了前哨, 杰里科是其中之一.
12 All were camped along Horse Creek, a day’s ride east of Fort Laramie, the Long Knives’ outpost.
13 Langley Air Force Base and Fort Monroe moved forward to integrate the housing and the schools on their bases; as federal outposts, they were bound to comply with federal law.
14 The officer at the outpost sent the “suspicious papers” to Washington—who never received them—and sent Anderson, under guard, to Arnold.
15 Instead, she was spending her day AN outpost for commerce in a nearly abANdoned, downtown Denver.
可是, 她却为了生计把这一天的时间花在经营这家丹佛市里几乎为人所遗忘的边远小店上.
16 The plan was accepted at most branches, but some of the more far-flung outposts felt that the plan was an effort by Jo-hannesburg to centralize control over the regions.
17 Sharjah, another of the seven statelets making up the UAE, plans to host an outpost of INSEAD, a Paris business school.
沙迦,组成阿联酋海湾七国中的另外一国,也计划要设立巴黎的欧洲工商管理学院的分校。
18 “There’s been an attack on one of our outposts,” he replies.
19 “Aberdeen Lake” sounds romantic and mysterious, like it might be located somewhere in die Scottish Highlands, as opposed to an abandoned outpost at the edge of Death Valley.
20 At noon George had left his outpost and gone down to the Quarter to get the packages from Miss Lee.