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

• 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。
• All the churches, forts, and museums.
  到处是教堂、城堡和博物馆。
• It is pleasant just to walk around and look at the old buildings and forts.
  单是到处走走看看古老的建筑和要塞也是很惬意的。
• I have got to go round all the forts and villages showing them.
  我只好到各处炮台和村庄全部呈现。
• Otherwise my forts would have sunk you in the harbor.
  另外我的舰队将把你埋葬。
• Koguryo forts and structures are being pulled down and used as building materials by the local residents.
  高句丽城保正被当地居民推倒用作建筑材料。
• The Great Wall of China was built more than two thousand years ago on the basis of joining together the forts built by feudal lords to protect their land against invasions by barbarians.
  中国的万里长城是两千多年前建成的，是在把封建王公们为了防御野蛮民族入侵而建筑的城堡连接起来的基础上建成的。
• Hierarchies are found with holdings, just like forts.
  发现与控股层，就像炮台。
• 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。
• 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。