breastwork meaning in English
【军事】胸墙；【造船】前后两甲板的栏杆。
Examples
- I feel very much like an officer who has stormed a breastwork despite his severe wounds .
我有这么一种感觉：仿佛自己是一个不顾身负重创，攻下了一个敌军堡垒的军官。 - "well, here we all are," said phineas, peeping over the stone breastwork to watch the assailants, who were coming tumultuously, up under the rocks .
“好啦，大家都过来了，”裴尼亚斯说，一面从石屏障后面探出头去窥视着悬崖下面喧嚣而上的敌人。 - Breastworks were thrown up at major intersections
在主要的十字路口都匆匆筑起了胸墙。 - A swarthy boy opened a book and propped it nimbly under the breastwork of his satchel
一个面色黧黑的少年打开书本，麻利地将它支在书包这座胸墙底下。 - One after another the cannon balls came whistling , striking the breastwork , the soldiers , the cannons
炮弹一个接一个飞来，打到土墙上，打到士兵身上，大炮上。