bastion的意思|bastion的解释-里氏词典

bastion ['bæstʃәn]

n. 棱堡, 阵地工事

A free press is one of the bastions of a democracy.
自由的新闻业是民主的壁垒之一
Taiwan is a bastion of freedom.
台湾是个自由的堡垒。
Comrades! What is a true bastion of iron?
同志们，真正的铜墙铁壁是什么？

bastion

[ noun ]

a group that defends a principle

<noun.group>

a bastion against corruption

the last bastion of communism

a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle

<noun.artifact>

projecting part of a rampart or other fortification

<noun.artifact>

Bastion \Bas"tion\ (b[a^]s"ch[u^]n; 106), n. [F. bastion (cf.
It. bastione), fr. LL. bastire to build (cf. F. b[^a]tir, It.
bastire), perh. from the idea of support for a weight, and
akin to Gr. basta`zein to lift, carry, and to E. baston,
baton.] (Fort.)
A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a
fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so
constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the
adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to
another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain,
which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the
other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called
the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See {Ravelin}.

These are trying times for the British pub, that unabashedly romanticized bastion of beer, banter and brotherhood.
The island was to be a communist bastion, an ever more menacing reminder to the rest of the region that their way of live was threatened," he says.
For 60 years, the Big Board has been a bastion of shareholder democracy, guaranteeing every holder an equal vote in the affairs of companies listed there.
What would we do without BBC2? It is beginning to look like the last bastion of intelligent programming. Tonight it continues the Crime and Punishment short season with two likely-looking offerings.
Now the bastion is threatened, if not by the Baby Bells, then by direct mail and the healthy market in free weeklies (largely unrepresented at Los Angeles) that localize news and advertising.
That statement carries revolutionary implications for a market which has been a bastion of laissez-faire economics. Some progress appears to have been made with a set of past problems.
COUTTS Bank clings assiduously to the frock coat and royal family image that befits a 300-year-old bastion of the English establishment.
It remains the last bastion of family entertainment and is surviving well.
Because they apparently still had control of the national command apparatus, Mr. Taylor imagined them heading to some remote bastion where they could threaten nuclear blackmail, or worse.
North Korea looks like communism's last bastion: Recent visitors say it is plastered with pictures of Kim Il-Sung's son and putative successor.
Rioting broke out in the Albanian capital of Tirana, and diplomats said Tuesday that hundreds of people stormed foreign embassies there trying to flee Europe's last bastion of hard-line communism.
State Sen. Ted Lechowicz, 51, like Kusper a bastion of machine politics, and the party's slated candidate.
Reformers see the committee as the bastion of conservatives wary of Gorbachev's program.
Formerly a bastion of conservatism dedicated to enforcing ideological orthodoxy and a rigorous uniformity among all schools, it now allows school councils to choose their own academic programs from a list of alternatives.
Yet he also shows how large and uneasy the divide still is. Clashes of theology and personality were inevitable from the day this conservative Prussian cardinal arrived in Cologne, a bastion of west German liberal catholicism.
In the Socialist bastion of Marseille, Mayor Robert Vigouroux, favored to win re-election, was ousted from the Socialist Party when he refused to step aside in favor of the official Socialist candidate, Michel Pezet.
The decision markep by Albania, Europe's last bastion of hard-line Communism, to emerge from its long postwar isolation.
Another all-male bastion fell with the induction of 30 women, including author Eudora Welty and actress Helen Hayes, into the Players Club, founded 100 years ago by Edwin Booth, a celebrated Shakespearean actor.
Iraqi Kurds attacked ridges guarding the last bastion of Turkish separatist Kurds in northern Iraq yesterday, Reuter reports.
The first of the 11.2 million registered voters to cast their ballots were the coal miners of Ostrava, a mining and industrial center on the Polish border long known as a bastion of Stalinism.
Now, they are determined to maintain Capital Steel's image as a socialist bastion.
The issue of time is always pertinent on the running track, but seldom more so than in the high-hurdle sprints that have been Foster's bastion in recent years.
It would be the first visit by a U.N. secretary-general to Albania, the last bastion of Stalinism in Eastern Europe.
Both parties say Democratic chances are better in Coelho's old California district, which extends through the heavily agricultural Central Valley, and Wright's bastion around Fort Worth.
We don't want the same mistake twice." The venerable New York Stock Exchange, long a bastion of resistance to the global push toward 24-hour securities trading, said Friday it is studying ways of developing a system of off-hours transactions.
His most important proposed rule changes would affect the Central Committee, the party's policy-making body and a bastion of conservative holdovers.
Neighboring Albania remains the last bastion of Stalinism in Eastern Europe, but is showing cautious signs of emerging from its self-imposed isolation.
But the scariest part of all for the GOP is its fear that it could lose control of the 61-seat state Senate, the party's last remaining bastion.
In the bustling Eastern Market, a bastion of free-enterprise spirit, merchants shrugged off the latest plunge in the cordoba as a necessary evil.
The Burning Tree Club has been an all-male bastion since its founding in 1922.

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