forts

英 [fɔːts]

美 [fɔrts]

n.  要塞; 堡垒; 城堡; 兵营; 军营; 营地
fort的复数

柯林斯词典

• 堡垒;要塞;城堡
  Afortis a strong building or a place with a wall or fence around it where soldiers can stay and be safe from the enemy.
• PHRASE 替人照料;代为负责
  If youhold the fortfor someone, or, in American English, if youhold down the fort, you look after things for them while they are somewhere else or are busy doing something else.
  1. His business partner is holding the fort while he is away.
     他不在的时候，其生意伙伴代为负责。

双语例句

• By now I was able to speak mandarin, and had grown accustomed to finding bricks and sticks to build forts with my friends.
  此时我已会说普通话，同时也已经习惯用砖块和棍子，和朋友一起建造堡垒。
• It was always a new adventure to build forts and other projects from wooden blocks.
  这是一个新的冒险总是炮台等工程建设从木桩。
• Hierarchies are found with holdings, just like forts.
  发现与控股层，就像炮台。
• Drenched in the stark Atlantic sun, the coastline is dotted with historic forts.
  沐浴在大西洋耀眼的阳光中，这片海岸线遍布着诸多历史悠久的古堡。
• It is pleasant just to walk around and look at the old buildings and forts.
  单是到处走走看看古老的建筑和要塞也是很惬意的。
• All the churches, forts, and museums.
  到处是教堂、城堡和博物馆。
• Its structure was inspired from buildings that have withstood the rising of the sea like the Maunsell Sea Forts in the Thames and Mersey estuaries located off the coast of the United Kingdom.
  方舟的建筑结构模仿了可以低昂海平面上升的泰晤士河和默西河河口上的作为默恩塞尔海洋堡垒，该堡垒位于英国海岸线上。
• At the beginning of the 19th century British possessions were confined to forts and slave trading posts on the west coast.
  19世纪初英国的占领地局限于西海岸的堡垒和奴隶交易点。
• I have got to go round all the forts and villages showing them.
  我只好到各处炮台和村庄全部呈现。
• Forts serve as bases where enterprising entrepreneurs could bring commerce to the West.
  要塞是有创业精神的企业家的基地，他们可以由此把贸易带到西部。