trench的意思|trench的解释-里氏词典

Trench \Trench\, v. i.
1. To encroach; to intrench.

Does it not seem as if for a creature to challenge
to itself a boundless attribute, were to trench upon
the prerogative of the divine nature? --I. Taylor.

2. To have direction; to aim or tend. [R.] --Bacon.

{To trench at}, to make trenches against; to approach by
trenches, as a town in besieging it. [Obs.]

Like powerful armies, trenching at a town
By slow and silent, but resistless, sap. --Young.

Trench \Trench\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trenched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Trenching}.] [OF. trenchier to cut, F. trancher; akin to Pr.
trencar, trenchar, Sp. trinchar, It. trinciare; of uncertain
origin.]
1. To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision,
hewing, or the like.

The wide wound that the boar had trenched
In his soft flank. --Shak.

This weak impress of love is as a figure
Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat
Dissolves to water, and doth lose its form. --Shak.

2. (Fort.) To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a
rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the
ditch; to intrench. --Pope.

No more shall trenching war channel her fields.
--Shak.

3. To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the
purpose of draining it.

4. To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging
parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each
from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.

Trench \Trench\, n. [OE. trenche, F. tranch['e]e. See {Trench},
v. t.]
1. A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for
draining land. --Mortimer.

2. An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods,
shrubbery, or the like. [Obs.]

In a trench, forth in the park, goeth she.
--Chaucer.

3. (Fort.) An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose
of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged
place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches.

{To open the trenches} (Mil.), to begin to dig or to form the
lines of approach.

{Trench cavalier} (Fort.), an elevation constructed (by a
besieger) of gabions, fascines, earth, and the like, about
half way up the glacis, in order to discover and enfilade
the covered way.

{Trench plow}, or {Trench plough}, a kind of plow for opening
land to a greater depth than that of common furrows.

One trench, 30 feet wide by 30 feet deep and 400 feet long, was filled with dirt Monday to form a firebreak similar to those used in forest fires, Lent said.
During a practice run on taking an Iraqi-style trench, Lt.
There, a lady in a trench coat furtively slipped the Emmy to a man in a trench coat.
There, a lady in a trench coat furtively slipped the Emmy to a man in a trench coat.
CANADIANS still talk about the incident in Aylmer, Quebec, in the mid-1980s. A long muddy trench lay beside a road where workers had installed and then demolished a new brick pavement.
However, Vijay Paranjpye, an economist with the governing body of Indian universities, concluded in a study of the project that it is "economically not viable." In the fashionable French trench, tacky khaki is out and polyester is in.
Tom Walsh, the library association's executive director, said more than 70,000 visitors have walked through the trench, but it's still just like new.
The pipes will be pulled offshore in a trench which will be dredged in June/July.
Yet it is possible to like this book while hoping never to find one's self in a trench, or even at a bar, alongside its author.
Since B&Q has by far the largest sites and is striving for high productivity, it is well placed to win the trench war it has started instead.
In most cases, cords need not be buried for safety, though for appearance you may want to conceal them in a shallow trench or cover them with gravel or wood chips.
His green or purple easily-fitted slim suits with black-piped chenille jackets were another great look here, along with the shiny bronze trench coats, and the tiger-striped shiny suits.
With the water cut off, they couldn't use toilets, so they dug a trench at one side of the compound and use it as a latrine.
At her first rifle practice, she was so startled by the sound of gunfire that she stood up in her trench and was hit in the head by a stray bullet.
Merloz made a hit at the Saint Laurent winter show by shaping trapeze styles and shortie trench coats in watered silk, poplin or taffeta, then lining them with lamb or mink.
The Mujahedeen quoted witnesses as saying prison guards dug a large trench near a road in the northern province of Gilan and in one night buried several truckloads of bodies.
After a series of unsuccessful meetings with Chinese leaders in Beijing two weeks ago, he now faces protracted trench warfare with China, which has given every indication that it neither approves of his proposals nor is prepared to discuss them further.
In a tiny cemetery atop a small knoll, a chain-link fence surrounds a mass grave where 146 Indians were buried in a long trench.
A 10-foot portrait of Hitler reviewing troops in a trench coat shows his moustache turned upwards and elongated _ not the way he wore it.
The homeless seek treatment for such ills as frostbite and rotted feet similar to soldiers who suffered trench foot, a disease caused by prolonged exposure to wet, cold and inactivity.
The existence of some sort of old trench was known as early as 1984, when a section was discovered during an earlier dig.
Demolition experts had trouble defusing the bomb because the fuse had been damaged when the device was struck by the machine digging the trench.
Museum owner Sembeau Lecocq said he found the skull and bones in a trench near the village of Thiepval in the Somme district about 25 years ago and decided to take them home for use in the exhibit housed in a castle in this northern Dutch town.
He said Reed may have been mistaken for a non-diplomat because it was dark and he was wearing a trench coat that may have obscured his identifying badge.
Using Cambodian conscript labor, the Vietnamese army has for some time been building Southeast Asia's answer to the Berlin Wall, a deep trench and barbed-wire fence to thwart the resistance and make it harder for Cambodians to escape.
A stone monument for Big Foot and the people who died with him stands to the side of the burial trench.
Since then, about 280 miles of the planned 12,500-mile pipeline have been laid in a trench cut through sand and underlying rock.

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