bulwarks

英 [ˈbʊlwəks]

美 [ˈbʊlwərks]

n.  保护者，防御者(指人或事物); 堡垒; 防御工事; (船的)舷墙
bulwark的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 防护；壁垒
  Abulwark againstsomething protects you against it. Abulwark ofsomething protects it.
  1. The abbeys were founded in the 12th century by King David as a bulwark against the English...
     这些修道院是12世纪大卫王用来抵御英国人而修建的堡垒。
  2. The House of Lords is the only bulwark of democracy in this country.
     在这个国家，上议院是唯一的民主堡垒。

双语例句

• In the response to the September 11 2001 attacks, many constitutional bulwarks were breached.
  2001年9月11日那次恐怖袭击之后，许多宪法壁垒被打破了。
• No one should want isolated infringements to become a pattern – eroding one of the most important bulwarks between this crisis and the1930s.
  没人希望孤立的违规行为变成一种定式&腐蚀掉防止这场危机演变为上世纪30年代危机的最重要屏障之一。
• This text analyzed the abroad characteristics towards our country agricultural produce export put technique bulwarks, and how to break the abroad technique bulwarks, and increase our country of agricultural product export.
  分析了国外对我国农产品出口实施技术壁垒的特点，阐述了如何突破国外技术壁垒，促进农产品出口。这一技术可以增加3dB带宽。
• Surgery and X-irradiation nevertheless remain the bulwarks of cancer treatment throughout the world.
  外科手术和X射线疗法依然是全世界治疗癌症的主要方法。
• Seeing Peter slowly advancing upon him through the air with dagger poised, he sprang upon the bulwarks to cast himself into the sea.
  看到彼得举着剑慢慢地凌空向他飞来，他跳上了船舷，纵身跳下海。
• He had pitched, as I have said, against the bulwarks, where he lay like some horrible, ungainly sort of puppet;
  我刚才已经说过，他滑到了舷樯旁，像个可怕而丑恶的傀儡一样躺在那里。
• The pirates respectfully cleared a passage for him, and it was only when he brought up against the bulwarks that he spoke.
  海盗们恭恭敬敬地给他让出一条路，他一直爬到了船舷那边，才开口说话。
• How will the agricultural product export face the broad technique bulwarks
  农产品出口如何面对国外技术壁垒
• The Supreme court, and the constitution, are bulwarks between this country's political identity and the bubbling cauldron of world opinion.
  最高法院和宪法是国家作为一个政治实体和世界观点的大熔炉之间的壁垒。
• They have the means to provide new bulwarks of the multilateral system.
  它们有能力为多边体系提供新的支柱。