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 outpost ['autpәust]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 前哨, 前哨部队, 前哨基地



    outpost
    [ noun ]
    1. a station in a remote or sparsely populated location

      2. <noun.location>
    2. a settlement on the frontier of civilization

      3. <noun.group>
    3. a military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops

      4. <noun.artifact>


    Outpost \Out"post`\, n. (Mil.)
    (a) A post or station without the limits of a camp, or at a
    distance from the main body of an army, for observation
    of the enemy.
    (b) The troops placed at such a station.

    1. The saddest and sickest part of this whole thing is that the actual victims here are the kids." While America marks the 20th anniversary of man's landing on the moon, NASA has on its wish list a permanent scientific lunar outpost early next century.
    2. A long, cool drink at hand, I lay back in a rattan-woven planter's chair, the kind in which colonials in every tropical outpost from Calcutta to Kumasi have taken their ease.
    3. A high-ranking Sandinista officer flew about 25 journalists, most of them American, to this rugged outpost on the Honduran border his troops retook from Contra rebels in a major offensive.
    4. But at least there shouldn't be any lack of contenders to run the new outpost, given that the TUC's domestic career opportunities look so bleak.
    5. In the southern Philippines, Moslem insurgents attacked a government outpost, killing five people, the military reported.
    6. Atop the rooster-comb ridge, a dozen Karen soldiers crouch behind rocks overlooking a saddle where the Burmese have dug in. Rifle bullets whine over the outpost where the soldiers have already spent 10 difficult days.
    7. He formerly commanded Fort Dimanche, a dreaded military outpost where thousands of political dissidents disappeared during the 29-year Duvalier family rule.
    8. Residents said graduation exercises had to be postponed because of the rebel ceremony, held three miles from a military outpost.
    9. Mashghara is four miles west of the Israelis' forward positions and is the Syrians' southern outpost in the western Bekaa.
    10. This rural outpost, 400 miles northeast of Helena, has one stoplight and five ostriches.
    11. Leftist guerrillas Wednesday attacked an army outpost with rifle and mortar fire, killing nine soldiers and wounding several, the armed forces said.
    12. The barrage scored several direct hits on a Syrian army outpost in an abandoned government school in Mashgara, the spokesman reported.
    13. "We're very excited by the turn of events." But the Soviets apparently aren't yet pulling back at one important outpost: their enormous communications interception facility at Lourdes, just outside Havana.
    14. Zurich isn't Moscow's only financial outpost; it has banks or representative offices in 15 countries, including the U.S. and Britain.
    15. Finley Kumble's Los Angeles outpost, built up by Mr. Manley, was counsel in the early 1980s to many troubled banks, including Merchant Bank of California, where Mr. Manley was chairman.
    16. Cheney was flown to the border outpost by helicopter after lunching with troops of the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division, but had to cancel a scheduled visit to Panmunjom, the truce village on the border of the two Koreas, due to dense fog.
    17. This last outpost of the Chinese civil war, is surely the world's most bucolic battle zone.
    18. The fires will again surround this bend-of-the-road outpost in the fall to burn off the sugarcane greenery and expose the stalks to the cutters' machetes.
    19. But the mood in this lower court, which shares quarters with an outpost of the Interior Ministry, recalls no big-city courthouse in America.
    20. The largest weapons the guerrillas have are 107mm Katyusha rockets and 60mm heavy mortars, neither of which could span the six miles separating his outpost from the guerrilla camp, Udi said.
    21. More than two centuries after their expulsion by the Spanish crown, Jesuit priests are back in this tropical outpost to champion the rights of Indians and a shrinking wilderness.
    22. In the north, the government launched a major offensive last week to relieve Jaffna Fort, a 300-year-old colonial outpost besieged by the rebels for 10 weeks.
    23. About 740 passengers and crew reached the Norwegian arctic outpost at Spitsbergen more than 25 hours after their ordeal began, officials said.
    24. Guerrillas later fired a salvo of about six Katyusha rockets at an Israeli army outpost in the town of Hasbaya, on the eastern edge of the zone.
    25. Yusupov entrenched a knight on a fine outpost in the center of the board, which he later replaced with a bishop.
    26. The pipeline terminates at a desert outpost known as H-4, where tanker trucks load the petroleum and drive it to the Red Sea port of Aqaba for export, with much of the oil kept for Jordanian domestic use.
    27. Bush and his wife, Barbara, clad in camouflage gear, waited in a chow line with troops deployed at a desolate desert outpost 65 miles from the Kuwait border.
    28. A Palestinian hurled a homemade bomb at an army outpost in the occupied Gaza City on Thursday and suffered serious wounds in the explosion, military officials said.
    29. Its operating cash flow is estimated at about $31 million this year, and it would give a station group without a New York outpost a strong boost.
    30. West Berlin was an outpost of democracy in a sea of communism. So many people fled to it from surrounding East German territory that the Communist regime built the Berlin Wall in 1961 to keep them in.
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