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词汇 human-shield
释义 human shield
noun[ C ]
uk /ˌhjuː.mən ˈʃiːld/ us /ˌhjuː.mən ˈʃiːld/
a person or group of people kept in a particular place in order to stop an enemy from attacking that place: 人体盾牌,人肉盾牌
Military bases were protected by captured enemy soldiers who were housed there as a human shield.军事基地受到由关在那里的敌军俘虏兵组成的人盾的保护。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Responding to an attack
beat
beat someone off
beat someone/something back
capitulate
combat patrol
counter-assault
counterattack
countercharge
fight
hold
parry
pull
pull back
refight
repel
repulse
resist
stand
strike
white flag

Examples of human shield


human shield
One case involved using an 11-year-old boy as a humanshield, by forcing him to enter suspected buildings first and also inspect bags.
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Mir uses herself as a humanshield and pleads with the soldiers not to fire.
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International monitors have documented separate reports from refugees of 80 occasions on which they or their neighbours have been used as human shields.
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Rabuka had allegedly tried to take civilians into the barracks for use as human shields.
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This so-called "humanshield" is an inhuman manipulation.
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There can be no defence for the taking of civilian hostages and using them as a humanshield.
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All the evidence shows that, using the consumer as a humanshield, a new and totally undemocratic form of government is being introduced.
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Only one outcome can have any decency in it the release of all hostages and the ending of the policy of the humanshield.
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He has taken innocent women, children and men from many countries as hostages to act as a humanshield behind which his army can hide.
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They have been a constant presence by willingly forming a humanshield.
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They conscripted child soldiers and used the civilian population as a humanshield, but that does not in any way alleviate the responsibility of the governmental authorities on the spot.
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That leaves aside the really disastrous scenario, which is the use of foreigners or people of their own kind as a humanshield against such an attack.
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But the inmates inside create a humanshield by tying the hostages to the interior wall.
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Relatives and neighbours gathered at the home to form a humanshield, according to one source.
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They could also use the referee as a humanshield, making themselves immune to all attacks.
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