bulwark

1 That country is a bulwark of freedom.

那个国家是自由的堡垒。

2 But there are now a plethora of cover-ups — even if they are more about a return to tailoring than a bulwark for a cold snap.

3 But even those who are accessing endowment funds in ways they have never done before consider these funds to be critical bulwarks to their organizations and plan to only increase their spending temporarily.

4 A bulwark against the suburban leech of sales taxes.

5 A fortification is a task, a line, a curve, not a bulwark.

6 Flames of abnormal size were pursuing them, licking up the sides of the junk bulwarks, which were crumbling to soot at their touch.

7 The soldiers kept their heads down behind the bulwark.

这些士兵在壁垒之后低着头.

8 He stood, the bulwark of the Grecian band.

9 As in the book, the characters speak in ornate, excessively civilized ways — they make the characters on “Deadwood” seem plain-spoken in retrospect — perhaps as a bulwark against the uncivilized matters at hand.

10 Soon after they wed, a Palestinian uprising erupted and Israel built the barrier, calling it a bulwark against attacks on its cities.

11 Self-assurance, however, is no bulwark against the depredations of age.

12 Preservation acts like a bottle tossed into the ocean, a fragile bulwark against oblivion.

13 The results, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Greg Bluestein in his new book, “Flipped,” provided “Democrats an invaluable foothold in the Deep South and a bulwark against growing Republican strength in the Midwest.”

14 Scenes like this have a stand-alone power, infusing Wilde’s witticisms and clowning with tragic import and repositioning them as a bulwark against the hypocrisies of the age and the indignities of decline.

15 Cooking abroad, he felt, was a bulwark against the formulaic path his career would have taken had he remained in France.

16 This is what the Strand remains for many people, a bulwark against the online tsunami.

17 The theme of journalism as a bulwark against tyranny runs throughout the second half of the play, as a coup deposes Windrip and the nation plunges into chaos.

18 Israel says the barrier that cuts through the West Bank is a bulwark against Palestinian suicide bombers.

19 Food is his constant in a poor childhood, and when he’s older, and sometimes spending days alone, it’s a bulwark against loneliness.

20 Like their friends, the Adamses' impeccable pedigrees and sterling resumes were no bulwark against the conventions of the day or their own self-doubt.

1 保卫者

guard

2 防御物

security shield fender rampart buckler defense panoply

3 保护者

protection guardian patron protector conservator

4 屏障

screen shelter wall barrier dam dike

5 保卫

safeguard maintain secure guard shield fence defend in defence of in defense of protect from

6 防御者

defender

7 防御工事

line fortification bastion redoubt defense barricade fortifications

8 保护

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9 支柱

support stay shore prop spur brace pillar cornerstone strut backbone mainstay crutch stilt fulcrum backstop stanchion trivet puncheon spile landtie sustentaculum standard staff leg column supporter stake upright anchorage stoop overcast underpinning buttress shoring stull sprag

10 舷墙

berthing

11 保障

security indemnity indemnification insurance policy guarantee assure indemnify insurance passport palladium insure

12 防波堤

pier mole jetty breakwater groyne sea bank sea wall seawall

13 堡垒

hold Castle fort fortress stronghold citadel bastion redoubt burg quila wall fastness ft castle vallation keep defence fortification rook rampart schloss alcazar strength fieldwork sconce work vallum

14 壁垒

wall rampart enceinte vallum mound vallation barrier

15 防御

defensive barricado security stand protection shield defence parade barricade buckler defend fence fend rampart defense prophylaxis protect

16 支持

responsive supportive support nurture endorsement encouragement backing sympathy adhesion patronage countenance back-up espousal with behind sympathize-ise promote bear advocate stake favour uphold fortify espouse corroborate pro- side with