2008年10月4日 星期六
Bunker
bunker
Y
燃料庫;煤倉
地下碉堡
【高爾夫】沙坑
【喻】使陷入窮境
D
–noun
1. a large bin (貯藏箱倉) or receptacle (貯藏所); a fixed chest or box: [coal] bunker.
2. a fortification (防禦工事) set mostly below the surface of the ground with overhead protection provided by logs and earth or by concrete and fitted with openings through which guns may be fired.
3. Golf. any obstacle, as a sand trap or mound (土墩) of dirt, constituting a hazard.
–verb (used with object)
4. Nautical.
a. to provide fuel for (a vessel).
b. to convey (bulk cargo except grain) from a vessel to an adjacent storehouse.
5. Golf. to hit (a ball) into a bunker.
6. to equip with or as if with bunkers: to bunker an army's [defenses].
Hauser is an intriguing character,
seen chugging shot glasses of hot sauce
chug
軋軋聲 (引擎排氣聲)
for reasons that are no doubt as significant as they are obscure. "I feel like a refugee from the island of Dr. Moreau," he confides at one point to the onboard computer on his private plane, a sort of sympathetic HAL 9000.
Arriving in the country of Turaqistan, he finds warfare [raging] everywhere, except within a protected area known as the Emerald City, for which of course we are to read Baghdad's Green Zone. Here American corporations
are so entrenched
that Hauser reaches the secret bunker of the Viceroy (a Tamerlane puppet) through a Popeye's Fried Chicken store.
avalanche
We received an avalanche of [inquiries].
She was avalanched with [invitations].
arson
arsenal
The police found an arsenal of [knives and guns] in the terrorists' hideout.
an arsenal of [facts] used in a debate
Deluge
shack
She discovers that Carl is shacked [up] with a beautiful
barrack
All the callers-in want to do is barrack him [about] his support
Tony
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