bulwark

英 [ˈbʊlwək]

美 [ˈbʊlwɜːrk]

n.  保护者，防御者(指人或事物); 堡垒; 防御工事; (船的)舷墙

复数：bulwarks　现在分词：bulwarking　过去式：bulwarked　第三人称单数：bulwarks　过去分词：bulwarked　

BNC.18948 / COCA.18990

牛津词典

noun

• 保护者，防御者（指人或事物）
  a person or thing that protects or defends sth
  1. a bulwark against extremism
     坚决反对极端主义者
• 堡垒；防御工事
  a wall built as a defence
• （船的）舷墙
  the part of a ship's side that is above the level of the deck

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 防护；壁垒
  Abulwark againstsomething protects you against it. Abulwark ofsomething protects it.
  1. The abbeys were founded in the 12th century by King David as a bulwark against the English...
     这些修道院是12世纪大卫王用来抵御英国人而修建的堡垒。
  2. The House of Lords is the only bulwark of democracy in this country.
     在这个国家，上议院是唯一的民主堡垒。

英英释义

noun

• a protective structure of stone or concrete
  Synonym:breakwatergroingroynemoleseawalljetty
• a fencelike structure around a deck (usually plural)
• an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
  1. they stormed the ramparts of the city
  2. they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down
  Synonym:rampartwall

verb

• defend with a bulwark

双语例句

• My fantasies were a moral bulwark that enabled me to feel I was keeping my emotional integrity whole.
  我的种种幻想都是一种道义上的保障，使我感到我在保持自己感情尊严的完整性。
• Property rights not only protect people against other persons but serve as a bulwark against state power.
  财产权不进食保护个人财产不受他人侵犯，也是防止国家权力侵害的保障。
• We were a bulwark against bolshevism.
  我们是对抗布尔什维克的壁垒。
• But Beijing also wants to maintain strong ties with Moscow, which it sees as an important source of energy and arms, and a bulwark against Western influence around the world.
  但另一方面北京也想和莫斯科保持密切联系。对北京而言，莫斯科是能源和军火的重要来源，也是抵御西方势力的一道壁垒。
• Indeed, altruism would be a bulwark against arrogance and envy, two features that are incompatible with happiness in its purest sense.
  事实是，利他主义将是对抗自负和嫉妒的壁垒。在幸福纯粹的定义里，自负和嫉妒是与之不相容的。
• A bulwark and a pillar the West may yet wish to retain.
  壁垒和基石是西方都需要保存的。
• Bulwark plate to be thickened and stiffener to be added in way of mooring hole.
  在设置导缆孔处舷墙板增加板厚和加强筋。
• Law and morality are the bulwark of society.
  法律和道德是社会的防御工具。
• Law is the bulwark of society.
  法律是社会的保障。
• In the face of dog-eat-dog International Rice market, only by consummateing rice standards, increasing investment, heightening inspective level, can we breach the technical bulwark and green barrier, and step into process of changing from big rice production country to rice trade great-power country.
  面对竞争激烈的国际大米生产，我国惟有完善稻米标准，加大投入，提高检测水平，才能突破技术壁垒和绿色壁垒，实现由稻米生产大国向稻米强国的转变。