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词汇 barrage
释义 barrage
noun
uk /ˈbær.ɑːʒ/ us /bəˈrɑːʒ/

barragenoun (ATTACK)


[ Cusually singular ]
the action of continuously firing large guns to protect soldiers advancing on an enemy: 掩护炮火,阻击火网
an artillery barrage炮火掩护
 a barrage of something
a great number of complaints, criticisms, or questions suddenly directed at someone: 连珠炮一样的(投诉、批评或质问),接二连三的…
The TV station has received a barrage of complaints about the amount of violence in the series.电视台接到了一连串的投诉,批评电视剧中的暴力镜头太多。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Detonation & bombardment
aerial bombardment
aerial photograph
air raid
airstrike
blanket bombing
carpet-bombing
detonate
detonation
detonator
direct hit
go off
guidance
loose
pepper
pepper something with something
petrol bomb
prime
refire
shell
shoot

barragenoun (STRUCTURE)


[ C ]
a structure that is built across a river to provide water for farming, to produce electricity, or to allow boats to travel more easily: 堰;拦河坝;拦潮坝
The proposed tidal barrage would generate enough electricity to supply 80,000 homes.提议修筑的拦潮坝发电量将足够8万户家庭使用。
 
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Watercourses & waterfalls
amazon
arroyo
beck
bourne
brook
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cascade
Congo
crick
flume
gulch
maelstrom
Panama Canal
plunge pool
raceway
rapids
rill
riverbed
waterfall
waterway

barrage | American Dictionary


barrage
noun[ Cusually sing ]
us/bəˈrɑʒ, -ˈrɑdʒ/
a continuous firing of large guns, esp. to protect soldiers advancing on an enemy:
an artillery barrage
A barrage is also a great number of complaints, criticisms, or questions suddenly directed at someone:
Morris fired off a barrage of questions about Halperin’s politics.

Examples of barrage


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The campaign to implement the scheme has been going on for 20 years and it has nothing to do with the barrages.
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I should also like to know how many are required for the balloon barrages.
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We bad a special telephone service and listening posts, and two or three barrages of searchlights.
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We could also conserve water by incorporating barrages.
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I think this is sufficient explanation of the fact that we take to barrages after those countries.
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The generation of electricity at tidal barrages is one possibility, but the environmental implications must clearly be fully explored before any decisions are taken.
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I can well understand the need for protecting the general public against minefields, or balloon barrages.
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Barrages are very much in vogue at present.
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Tidal barrages create huge environmental problems: silt settles and fish die when the energy is taken out of waves.
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They have been continuously barraged by financial constraint.
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Our proposals will enable parents to make their own judgments without being barraged with a lot of sociological gobbledegook.
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There may be a very good environmental justification for some barrages.
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There is a great deal of nonsense in this attraction of barrages to urban developers.
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Feasibility studies of major barrages are currently under way.
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I realise that not all barrages fall into that category although some of course do.
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