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词汇 fort
释义 fort
noun[ C ]
uk /fɔːt/ us /fɔːrt/
a military building designed to be defended from attack, consisting of an area surrounded by a strong wall, in which soldiers are based: 堡垒;城堡;要塞
The remains of the Roman fort are well preserved.这个罗马要塞的遗址保存完好。
Synonym
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fort | American Dictionary


fort
noun[ C ]
us/fɔrt, foʊrt/
a building or group of buildings contained in an area enclosed by a strong wall and designed to be used by soldiers in defending against attack

Examples of fort


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His army is too large to approach the fort by any one of the many paths that converge on the fort.
Given its relatively high artefact content, any redeposition was very probably of rubbish from within the fort itself.
Five huge fort gates were constructed in a harmonized style with these walls.
He considered leaving the fort without consulting him or getting his permission as intolerable behaviour.
The restoration of old temples, and the construction of new ones in the fort, had already started in the early nineteenth century.
Similarly, melon beads and bronze pendants found inside military forts are usually considered to be associated with cavalry horses.
It was spread along several desert forts and was highly mobile, equipped with cars, camels, and wireless.
The ground plan of the fort indicates that a different type of unit was garrisoned there.
He told me that the fort was still congested with market streets and houses in the 1920s.
Exactly why she returned to the fort within six weeks is not very clear.
A transfer from within the fort is easier to imagine.
It seems unreasonable to assume that this material was redeposited from outside the fort.
We read, for example, that together with some other rebel leaders he was served by more than fifty ladies in a fort.
Official correspondence between the forts was at first carried by seas, but by the 1850s an inland service had been introduced, open to the public.
Beginning in about 1650 as the location of a rudimentary fort and some warehouses, it was described as a small town until the 1690s.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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