| 词汇 | moat |
| 释义 | moat noun[ C ] uk /məʊt/ us /moʊt/ a long, wide hole that is dug all the way around a place such as a castle and usually filled with water, to make it more difficult to attack（城堡等的）护城河，城壕 Fortifications acropolis barricade bastion battlements castle citadel drawbridge earthwork enceinte entanglement fort machicolation Martello tower moated motte motte-and-bailey castle pillbox storm cellar stronghold turret Examples of moatmoat The seven-metre-high wall that enclosed the dockyards was surrounded by a deep and wide moat. Across the nation windowless inward-turning shopping malls are surrounded by moat-like parking lots. Each hut was surrounded by a water-filled moat to exclude ants and spiders. Initially, the outer moat had marked its boundaries. With population pressure rising, some residents petitioned to fill-in the palace moat and use that land for new construction. Until the middle of the seventeenth century, the city magistrates' jurisdiction extended only over the area within the outer moat. The structure has a large central uplift surrounded by a moat and a peripheral terrain with rotated fault blocks. Is there a duty to drain the moat (shut off the current) in order to avoid excessive punishment? Our house is our castle, but it no longer needs to be surrounded by wall and moat. A subtle modulation of paving, a fictive moat and a cosmic dragon presiding over a water tank (for ritual cleansing) then announce the principal shrine. The wall and moat managed to prevent the theft of materials and tools, and the 'maestranza' from shirking their duties. This is the moat useful analogy for engineers, since it is capable of yielding fairly precise quantitative information and it can be applied to a wide variety of problems. There must be no stagnant moat encircling it, no unscaleable wall around it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am genuinely bewildered by the idea that it is safer to be in a trough or a moat. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is the site of a mediaeval manor house and moat. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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