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单词 firing line
释义
firing line
also firing-line
Word forms: firing lines
1. countable noun
If you are in the firing line in a conflict, you are in a position where someone is aiming their gun at you.
Any hostages in the firing line would have been sacrificed.
He was sure he would pin down the enemy between two firing lines.
2. singular noun [usu in/out of N]
If you say that someone is in the firing line, you mean that they are being criticized, blamed, or attacked for something.
Foreign banks are in the firing line too.
Young players found themselves too much in the firing line.
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