| 词汇 | onslaught |
| 释义 | onslaught noun[ C ] uk /ˈɒn.slɔːt/ us /ˈɑːn.slɑːt/ a very powerful attack: 猛攻;攻击;袭击 It is unlikely that his forces could withstand an enemy onslaught for very long.他的军队不大可能长时间抵御联军的强攻。 Scotland's onslaught on Wales in the second half of the match earned them a 4–1 victory.苏格兰队在下半场猛攻威尔士队，以4比1赢得了胜利。 Attacking & invading advance guard aggressor ambush beleaguer beleaguered besiege blitz cyberbullying cyberwarfare declare war on someone/something false flag foray full-frontal assault hit and run post-attack post-conquest pre-emption privateer raid swoop onslaught | American Dictionaryonslaught noun[ C ] us/ˈɔn·slɔt, ˈɑn-/ a violent and forceful attack: fig. With the nice weather, the beach towns are expecting an onslaught of tourists. Examples of onslaughtonslaught The conventions and borders of art practice, sonic or visual, are defined enough to withstand an emotional onslaught. Faced with an onslaught of zoning cases, judges reacted to various articulations of the comprehensiveness rationale with their own sort of collective puzzling. Accordingly, the heroic ego in these baroque plays of labyrinthine intrigue and changing fortune had to prove itself by resisting the onslaught of affects. The latest onslaught on the freedom of the spirit appeals to alleged scientific facts. What was remarkable about this graduate onslaught is that it was almost entirely confined to education. Foreign visitors and travellers were especially vulnerable to the onslaught of tropical diseases. Adolescents are faced with an onslaught of changes that result in alterations in their physical development, cognitive capacities, social relations, and emotionality. The contract theorists had no wish to challenge the original patriarchal right in their onslaught on paternal right. He sought on the one hand to combat religious enthusiasm and, on the other, to resist the onslaught of materialism. He augmented his announcement of the limited release with an unprecedented onslaught of pre-release publicity. Likewise, efforts to police park boundaries will not withstand the human onslaught unleashed if poverty continues to grip the countryside. Besides, though the bird was naturalized across most of the continent, its onslaught was running out of steam. In the 1970s, as inflation and unemployment rose sharply, so did the moralistic onslaught against the excesses of affluence. The average man is trapped between these two onslaughts. Such faith, moreover, would whittle away at the onslaughts of sin and cultivate a ' vivifying ' righteousness that spoke volumes to the enquiring soul. 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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