bulwarks

英 [ˈbʊlwəks]

美 [ˈbʊlwərks]

n.  保护者，防御者(指人或事物); 堡垒; 防御工事; (船的)舷墙
bulwark的复数

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。

双语例句

• In the response to the September 11 2001 attacks, many constitutional bulwarks were breached.
  2001年9月11日那次恐怖袭击之后，许多宪法壁垒被打破了。
• They have the means to provide new bulwarks of the multilateral system.
  它们有能力为多边体系提供新的支柱。
• As a WTO memberships, technique bulwarks of advanced country have become the important factors of baffling exportation of our country farm production.
  我国加入世贸组织后，发达国家的技术壁垒已成为阻碍农产品出口的重要因素。
• For a long time he was too happy to speak, and could only gaze at the sea and the sun and feel the bulwarks and the ropes, as if to make sure he was really awake, while tears rolled down his cheeks.
  他高兴得久久说不出话来，只会眼望着大海和太阳，摸着舷墙和缆绳，仿佛要使自己相信他的确醒着，脸上泪水滚滚直流。
• Health ( along with education and pensions) used to be provided through government enterprises in cities and communes in the countryside, both bulwarks of the state that have disintegrated in recent years, leaving a vacuum to be filled by a user-pays system.
  过去，医疗（以及教育和养老金）由城市中的国有企业和农村公社买单。而最近几年，政府的这两大堡垒已经瓦解，留下了一个由用者自付体系来填补的真空。
• With all my strength, I plucked myself clear of him and ran to the bulwarks.
  我拚命用全力挣脱了船长的手臂，向船舷奔去。
• He ran to the bulwarks as soon as the wave was passed, saw me, and lost me, and saw me again, as I tumbled in the roost.
  浪头一过，他马上奔到船上，看见我在汹涌澎湃的巨浪中挣扎，一会儿沉下，一会儿浮起。
• The Supreme court, and the constitution, are bulwarks between this country's political identity and the bubbling cauldron of world opinion.
  最高法院和宪法是国家作为一个政治实体和世界观点的大熔炉之间的壁垒。
• Seeing Peter slowly advancing upon him through the air with dagger poised, he sprang upon the bulwarks to cast himself into the sea.
  看到彼得举着剑慢慢地凌空向他飞来，他跳上了船舷，纵身跳下海。
• Surgery and X-irradiation nevertheless remain the bulwarks of cancer treatment throughout the world.
  外科手术和X射线疗法依然是全世界治疗癌症的主要方法。