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

• 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 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。
• In the early Ming Dynasty, it was ranked as one of the important military forts of Nation-al Coast Defense System.
  明初它就作为军事要塞纳入了国家海防体系。
• Its structure was inspired from buildings that have withstood the rising of the sea like the Maunsell Sea Forts in the Thames and Mersey estuaries located off the coast of the United Kingdom.
  方舟的建筑结构模仿了可以低昂海平面上升的泰晤士河和默西河河口上的作为默恩塞尔海洋堡垒，该堡垒位于英国海岸线上。
• Settings in World of Warcraft include small towns and forts, but also six major cities ( and we're talking big daddies here) at various locations in the world of Azeroth.
  《魔兽世界》中的建筑包括小城镇和堡垒，还有六座分布在艾泽拉斯世界不同地点的主城。
• 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。
• KABUL& The hills of this capital stand as monuments to men in battle, topped by crumbling forts and rusted tanks, ancient ramparts and gleaming tombs of kings.
  喀布尔&这座首都城市的小山屹立着，像一座纪念战争中的战士们的纪念碑，山顶有破碎的堡垒、锈蚀的坦克、古代城墙和闪着微光的国王墓地。
• 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。
• 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。