英：['brestˌwɜ:k]
美：['brestˌwɜk]
breastwork如何读
breastwork是什么意思
- n.胸墙；临时防御工事
breastwork自然拼读
breast·work
brest wuhrk
breastwork英英释义
- n.fortification consisting of a low wall
breastwork词源中文解释
"fieldwork thrown up breast-high for defense," 1640s, 来自 breast（名词）和 work（名词）在“防御工事”意义上的结合。古英语中也有相同意义的 breostweall。
breastwork词源英文解释
The first known use of breastwork was in 1633
breastwork儿童词典英英释义
breatheverb
to draw air into and expel it from the lungs
live entry 1 sense 1
to blow softly
to send out by exhaling
breathe a sigh of relief
to bring by or as if by breathing
breathe new life into the movement
to say quietly or softly
don't breathe a word to anybody
to allow to rest after hard work
breathe a horse
to take in in breathing
breathe the scent of roses
to allow air or moisture to pass through
a fabric that breathes
breathnoun
air filled with a fragrance or odor
a slight indication : suggestion
a faint breath of scandal
the ability to breathe
an act of breathing
breather sense 2
a slight breeze
air inhaled and exhaled in breathing
something (as moisture on a cold surface) produced by breathing
a spoken sound
breastworknoun
a wall thrown together to serve as a defense in battle
breastwork 例句
1 A swarthy boy opened a book and propped it nimbly under the breastwork of his satchel.
一个面色黧黑的少年打开书本，麻利地将它支在书包这座胸墙底下。
2 Christie demanded if212 there were any among them who spoke English; upon which, a man in the Indian dress came out from behind the breastwork.
3 Frank McCarthy then sang out, “Boys, make a break for the slough yonder, and we can then have the bank for a breastwork.”
4 They endeavored to make a rebel breastwork of the Constitution; to create a fire in the rear.
5 Methods Perforate the outside breastwork of nasal cavity and dacryocyst underwent transnasal endoscopic used microwave and electric drill.
方法鼻内镜直视下在鼻腔外侧壁联合应用微波、电钻对骨壁及泪囊进行开窗。
6 Advancing to the attack, they saw before them a breastwork of uncommon height and thickness.
7 The first shell which came at these six men fell short, and the second and the third bursting in the same place, scattered the outer covering of the breastwork.
8 Finally the fire communicated with our breastworks in places.
9 Immediately above, and within gunshot of the vessel, the Indians had made a breastwork of logs, carefully concealed by bushes, on the shore of Turkey Island.
10 He dropped his pole, seized a rifle with his left hand and a revolver with his right, and calling to the men, leapt over the breastwork on to the island.
11 They lay snug behind a hastily improvised breastwork on the crest of the hill.
12 Beneath their gaze, upon the point closest to them, we have raised up a breastwork and a stockade, which fort we call Fort Hamond.
13 I have thrown up four breastworks, behind which I have entrenched myself, neither of which can be enforced.
14 Some had run along the boom, and at the moment when John returned were trying to leap over the breastwork on to the raft.
15 It arises from deepening concern about the people’s limited appreciation of the First Amendment and disgust with media waffling behind timidity’s breastworks.
16 Thinking only of retreat he had neglected to erect a breastwork or cut a ditch in front of his position, which would have effectually prevented a cavalry attack.
17 The Indians now rolled logs to the top of the ridges, where they made three strong breastworks, from behind which they could discharge their shot and throw their fireworks with greater effect.
18 I was ordered to stand near the breastworks overlooking the inlet between island and mainland.
19 In the burning village I was visible to everyone and as soon as I dove into one of the trenches, the shell exploded on the breastwork.
我所在的位置敌我双方都能看到，当我要跑进一个战壕的时候，一发炮弹在胸墙上爆炸。
20 Johnny, from sheer high spirits, jumped the now deserted breastwork the British had thrown up so hastily the night before.