blockades

英 [blɒˈkeɪdz]

美 [blɑːˈkeɪdz]

n.  (尤指对港口的)包围，封锁; 障碍物; 屏障
v.  包围，封锁(尤指港口)
blockade的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 封锁；阻塞
  Ablockadeof a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
  1. Striking lorry drivers agreed to lift their blockades of main roads...
     罢工的卡车司机们同意解除对主干道的封堵。
  2. It's not yet clear who will actually enforce the blockade.
     目前还不清楚谁会真正执行这项封锁任务。
  3. ...the economic blockade of Lithuania.
     对立陶宛的经济封锁
• VERB 阻塞；封锁
  If a group of peopleblockadea place, they stop goods or people from reaching that place. If theyblockadea road or a port, they stop people using that road or port.
  1. Truck drivers have blockaded roads to show their anger over new driving regulations...
     卡车司机通过阻塞道路来表达他们对新机动车交通法规的不满。
  2. About 50,000 people are trapped in the town, which has been blockaded for more than 40 days.
     大约有5万人被困在这座已被包围40多天的城市中。

双语例句

• Despite the rulings in favour of Uruguay, the Argentinian protests and blockades continued.
  尽管国际法庭的判决站在了乌拉圭一方，但是阿根廷的抗议以及阻断桥梁的活动依旧继续。
• Last autumn, the Russians imposed postal and aviation blockades, alongside the existing embargoes on Georgia's water, wine and fruit.
  去年秋天，俄在已有的酒，水，水果禁运的基础上，又新增了邮政和航空封锁。
• They had already evaded a series of police blockades to get closer to the edge of the resort.
  他们已经回避了一系列的警方封锁，以拉近与边缘度假。
• For several decades after the founding of the People's Republic, we were isolated and subjected to blockades and sanctions.
  建国以后，我们处于被孤立、被封锁、被制裁的地位有几十年之久。
• Some returned to the scenes of abandoned blockades, hoping to stop the tankers again.
  还有一些人重回遭弃置的封锁现场，希望再次阻止油罐车进入。
• We will break industry monopolies; remove regional blockades, support superior enterprises in acquiring ones in financial difficulties; and close down backward production facilities more quickly.
  打破行业垄断和地区封锁，推动优势企业兼并困难企业，加快淘汰落后产能。
• As trader Mako Mahamud explains, the grass travels a circuitous route between Shabab blockades before arriving in Dobley-and the price more than doubles along the way.
  经商的马哈穆德解释说，这些草料在运到多布莱的路上，必须走迂回的途径。运输费用使价格升高了不止一倍。
• Self-sufficiency declined steadily – interrupted briefly by the blockades of the first and second world wars – and was less than 40 per cent by 1939.
  自给率稳步下降（因一、二战期间的封锁曾暂时中断），至1939年时，仅为不足40%。
• Our correspondent said the unions and the government were engaging in a game of cat-and-mouse over the fuel blockades.
  我们住该地记者称，工会和政府正在围绕燃料封锁进行一场“猫鼠游戏”。
• Striking lorry drivers agreed to lift their blockades of main roads
  罢工的卡车司机们同意解除对主干道的封堵。