bulwark

bulwark['bulwək]

• n.
  • 【堡垒】防御土墙，堡垒，壁垒
  • 防御物，防护物；保护
  • (港口前或海岸外的)防波堤，堤岸，防浪墙(= breakwater)
  • (在危险、犹豫不决或需要时的)给予鼓励(或支持)的人(或物)，保障，支柱
  • [通常用复数]【船舶学】舷墙
• vt.
  • 为…筑堡垒以防御，用堡垒防护
  • 防御，保护，保卫：

    The strength of our country bulwarked us through the financial crisis.

    我国的实力使我们得以安然渡过这次金融危机。

• avalanche photodiode
• -iatrics
• slinger rings
• protozoologist
• Stechhelm
• Ogygian
• atoneable
• pinguin
• vanadium pentoxide
• senatorial courtesy
• sea-wind
• reinflation
• obeahism
• Galois group
• relocatees
• keep to the bottle
• Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert
• Bahian
• Russell movable-wall oven
• administrating
• dispossess from
• nanoamp
• SUN compasses
• esrogim
• back-step marks
• state descriptions
• zedonk
• 2-methoxyethanol
• past future perfect
• housekeepings
• shark bell
• cachucha
• rimrocks
• v-1s
• temperest
• eradiates
• Harrisburg
• palled
• Napier diagram
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• essay test
• prisoner
• talk sailor
• Disneyland
• Vietnik
• pierceable
• pepsin
• smaltites
• Bentinck, William Henry Cavendish, Duke of Portland
• unremittently
• old ice
• signalizing
• a nasty one
• auger in
• accounting package
• soft failure
• taperness
• r.e
• thermoregulator
• pant
• panatelas
• mean solar times
• decentralists
• closed season
• Clupeoidea
• kurnakovite
• electric protective device
• it's (all) water under the bridge
• eschatologists
• Libava
• dandricide
• between you, me and the doorpost
• guitarists
• narrater
• sapphist
• near and dear
• antistory
• pimola
• deproteination
• verrucas
• restrainability
• radar jamming
• albertypes
• engraileds
• poitous
• formularised
• eat into
• melodramatics
• decollated
• croustades
• reconfirmations
• malpractices
• Islamic fundamentalist
• snowlike
• hurrians
• oriental topaz
• ped
• send someone packing
• board sth↔up
• savour of the pan