英：[ˈdʌnkə:k,dʌnˈk-]
美：[ˈdʌnˌkɚk]
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Dunkirk英英释义
Noun:
- a crisis in which a desperate effort is the only alternative to defeat;
"the Russians had to pull off a Dunkirk to get out of there"
- a seaport in northern France on the North Sea; scene of the evacuation of British forces in 1940 during World War II
- an amphibious evacuation in World War II (1940) when 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches in northern France in a desperate retreat under enemy fire
Dunkirk词源中文解释
法国东北海岸城市，法语 dunkerque，字面意思为“沙丘教堂”，源自中古荷兰语 dune（见 dune）和 kerke（见 church（n.））； 指7世纪的圣埃洛伊教堂。
Dunkirk词源英文解释
Dunkirk or Dunkerque, France, scene of the evacuation of Allied forces in 1940
The first known use of Dunkirk was in 1941
Dunkirk 例句
1 If you were thinking of a large-scale opera then what springs to mind is 380,000 troops on the beaches of Dunkirk.
2 As William hunkered by the radio, Norway fell to the Nazis, and the British Army struggled to regroup after its defeat at Dunkirk.
3 That was the year, of course, in which the British army had to stage its dramatic retreat from France during the famous Battle of Dunkirk.
4 In the decades since, Nolan, 53, has become known for his expansive cinematography and mind-bending plots in movies like “Memento,” the “Dark Knight” trilogy and “Dunkirk.”
5 If I ever get out of this lot...They could never be counted, the dreamed-up children, mentally conceived on the walk into Dunkirk, and later made flesh.
6 “This film, one of the things I really liked about it is that it doesn’t attempt to tell ‘the story’ of Dunkirk.
7 He was an infantry colonel captured at Dunkirk.
8 A key difference that may win more converts is that Dunkirk is type of story that exploits the scope of the format.
9 “Dunkirk to me is one of the most suspenseful ticking-clock scenarios of all time.”
10 Together, these stories weave together over the course of a year, traversing Europe from Warsaw to Dunkirk, Berlin to Paris and Manchester.
11 When Arnold was 2 years old, his father moved the family to Dunkirk, N.Y., near Buffalo, where he managed his sister’s haberdashery store.
12 There are very few Hollywood film-makers who could have made Dunkirk.
13 It’s not hard for a fiction writer to come up with a chilling alternate history that starts with the Battle of Dunkirk.
14 Roy Hattersley recalls greeting the news of the disaster at Dunkirk by chanting, along with his primary school classmates, Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them!
15 The British Army was marooned on the beaches of Dunkirk, in France, and surrounded by Germans.
16 “Dunkirk” is a World War II movie, one told through soldiers, their lived and near-death experiences and their bodies under siege.
17 “Darkest Hour,” a companion to “Dunkirk,” is also in several senses a sequel to “The King’s Speech,” a mildly enjoyed best picture winner.
18 After surviving Dunkirk, her father was registered as disabled and they lived in a council house with a large garden where her parents grew vegetables.
19 Speaking on Britain's BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw, Styles, who stars in upcoming World War Two drama "Dunkirk", said he was "nervous" before introducing the track.
20 Much of the production happened on the actual beaches of Dunkirk, with key cast members spending weeks training on the beaches and in the ocean.