forts

英 [fɔːts]

美 [fɔrts]

n.  要塞; 堡垒; 城堡; 兵营; 军营; 营地
fort的复数

柯林斯词典

• 堡垒;要塞;城堡
  Afortis a strong building or a place with a wall or fence around it where soldiers can stay and be safe from the enemy.
• PHRASE 替人照料;代为负责
  If youhold the fortfor someone, or, in American English, if youhold down the fort, you look after things for them while they are somewhere else or are busy doing something else.
  1. His business partner is holding the fort while he is away.
     他不在的时候，其生意伙伴代为负责。

双语例句

• By now I was able to speak mandarin, and had grown accustomed to finding bricks and sticks to build forts with my friends.
  此时我已会说普通话，同时也已经习惯用砖块和棍子，和朋友一起建造堡垒。
• At midnight, we began to attack the enemy and thrust home all their forts.
  午夜，我们开始向敌人进攻，打中了他们所有的碉堡。
• All forts now take the same time to regain garrison size.
  所有要塞现在恢复其驻守兵力所需时间相同了。
• They built strong forts to guard the city and the harbour.
  他们建筑了坚固的要塞来保护城市和港湾。
• The young officers of the African Service who volunteered to man the slave forts and oversee the dungeons were children of the age of enlightenment.
  那些自愿看管奴隶城堡和地牢的都是些在非洲服役的刚过懵懂之年的年轻军官。
• It was always a new adventure to build forts and other projects from wooden blocks.
  这是一个新的冒险总是炮台等工程建设从木桩。
• Fort: Forts are the best way to fight off invasions from angry monarchs.
  堡垒：当愤怒的海岛王进攻你的国家时，利用堡垒是最好的防御方法。
• The two parts of the city developed around Dutch and English forts built in the17th century. Population, 93,882.
  该市的两个部分，于17世纪时分别由荷兰和英国的建筑要塞向四周发展起来。
• Muri Lignei-A wooden wall is the most common defence for new settlements and semi-permanent forts in the northern provinces.
  在北方行省，木墙是一个新的定居点和半永久据点最常见的防御工事。
• At the beginning of the 19th century British possessions were confined to forts and slave trading posts on the west coast.
  19世纪初英国的占领地局限于西海岸的堡垒和奴隶交易点。