fort
n. 堡壘,要塞; <美>邊界貿易站
A fort is a strong building or a place with a wall or fence around it where soldiers can stay and be safe from the enemy.
If you hold the fort for someone, or, in American English, if you hold down the fort, you look after things for them while they are somewhere else or are busy doing something else.
His business partner is holding the fort while he is away.
他不在的時候,其生意夥伴代為負責。
1. a fortified military post where troops are stationed
2. a fortified defensive structure
1. gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense
2. enclose by or as if by a fortification
3. station (troops) in a fort
Outside the fort, Santa Anna prepared for the final attack.
這時,山塔?安那將軍正在堡壘外面準備作最後一次的攻擊.
The Fifth Armoured Division was based at Fort Knox.
第五裝甲師駐紮在諾克斯要塞.
The Fourth Armoured Division was based at Fort Benning.
第四裝甲師駐紮在本寧要塞.
The cavalry commander predicted that many Sioux would bite the dust if they attacked the fort.
騎兵指揮官預言,如果蘇族人進兵要塞,他們中有很多人會被打死.
Fort building is Wong, lime, fine sand mixing, layer by layer filling compaction, very strong.
炮臺建築採用黃泥 、 石灰 、 細砂拌和, 逐層填築夯實, 非常堅固.