| 词汇 | beachhead |
| 释义 | beachhead noun[ C ] uk /ˈbiːtʃ.hed/ us /ˈbiːtʃ.hed/ an area of land near the sea or a river that an attacking army has taken control of and from where it can move forward into enemy country: （军队的）滩头阵地，滩头堡 The troops quickly established a beachhead and were preparing to advance.部队很快建立了滩头阵地，准备继续向前推进。 Compare bridgehead Places involved in military activity air bridge air corridor bases Bastille battlefield battleground command post emplacement enceinte fort front-line installation Martello tower multi-front observation post obstacle course parade ground theatre unmanned watchtower beachhead | Business Englishbeachhead noun[ C ] COMMERCEuk /ˈbiːtʃhed/us a position in a market that a company achieves and that it hopes to make stronger in the future: We acquired 49% of the company, providing us a valuable beachhead in the growing Asian market. gain/establish a beachheadThe company are keen to establish a beachhead in California's lucrative energy market. See also foothold footing Examples of beachheadbeachhead The beachhead is kept small by judicial discretion-but at the level of questions rather than answers. When law is working well, the beachhead is kept small. Judgments involving absolute borderline cases give the legal realists a beachhead. On landfall, the thin-walled clinker-built ships needed to be beached and cleaned out to avoid rotting, and the resultant midden provided a beachhead from which the introduced biota could disperse. Perhaps it could serve as a beachhead to build on, and to push the process of developing common sense, which we should have pushed earlier. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The inevitable difficulties of operating a beachhead under attack had been exacerbated by their removal, which might explain some of the feelings of chaos among the new arrivals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These are not once-for-all commando raids but, having established a foothold on the beachhead, we must go on to the bridgehead and expand and hold a portion of that market. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It landed a small airborne force and then sent landing parties in, supporting them by ship bombardment, and reinforcements were sent in until the beachhead was secured. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In this liberated beachhead, two major airfields plus smaller liaison landing strips were hastily constructed. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Because the invader's reality remade the physical laws of the beachhead, his armies were much more effective in combat than the target's defense force. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Although it was the beachhead of early settlement on the island, its population has not grown significantly since it was settled. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The brigade resupplies these troops during the early stages of establishing a beachhead. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. After this successful subterfuge she sailed to the actual beachheads and landed her troops. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This caused confusion as to the size of the attack, including the company defending the beachhead reporting the attack as nothing unusual. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Since the 20th century an amphibious landing of troops on a beachhead is acknowledged as the most complex of all military manoeuvres. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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