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citadel ['sitәdәl]

n. 城堡, 避难处

Here was a citadel in the Second World War.
在二战中，这儿是一处避难所。
This citadel is built on high ground for protecting the city.
这座城堡建于高处是为保护城市。
The fortified height or citadel of an ancient Greek city.
卫城古希腊城市的设防的城堡或要塞

citadel

[ noun ]
a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle
<noun.artifact>

Citadel \Cit"a*del\, n. [F. citadelle, It. citadella, di?. of
citt? city, fr. L. civitas. See {City}.]
A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city
and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense.

{Syn}. -- Stronghold. See {Fortress}.

Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos said they were simple folks, but they lived in an ornate citadel of self-glorification from which they ruled the Philippines with a curious mixture of dictatorship and flexibility, reform and stagnation.
Around the citadel's six-mile perimeter of tall brick ramparts, the water in its moats took on the purple and orange glow of the sky overhead.
Having failed to score the necessary intellectual victory, creationists are attempting a forced entry into the academic citadel with, as it were, police escort.
Mayor Anthony Cucci of Jersey City, N.J., and Mayor Carlos Chacon of Cuzco, their wives and six other people were on an outing to the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu when the crash occurred Thursday, officials said.
"There is mechanism enough about it to lift the drawbridge of a citadel," Walpole wrote of his prize, "and one grieves that such complicated ingenuity should have been employed for the simple operation of unlocking a door."
So maybe it is better politics to represent the Community, not as the black citadel of supra-nationality, but as a gleaming fortress to sustain British greatness.
For the past year, giant shears have been nibbling away at Andrew Carnegie's citadel of steel and smoke in Homestead, slowly demolishing the plant that once employed 15,000 and supplied massive amounts of armor plate in World War II.
A sculpture by Soviet artist Zurab Tsereteli was unveiled on a busy corner in London's financial district Thursday, and the proud sculptor proclaimed: "We have stormed the citadel of capitalism.

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