英语词汇“rearguard defence”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

C1. attributive. Designating fighting involving the rearguard of an army, esp. in order to cover a retreat, as rearguard battle, rearguard defence, rearguard skirmish, etc. Also figurative and in extended use. See also rearguard action n. at Compounds 2.

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1838 F. Shoberl tr. A. Thiers Hist. French Revol. III. 444 We had now only rear-guard battles to fight.

1921 J. Buchan Hist. Great War I. x. 228 Only the 9th Corps, of all the contemplated offensive, went into action, and then only in a rearguard skirmish.

1957 Times 10 July 11/6 Molotov and Kaganovich..have fought a prolonged and stubborn rearguard battle against all the reformist changes in Soviet policy.

1986 E. E. Scharff Worldly Power iv. 61 Grimes seemed to have fought an endless succession of rear-guard battles against Kilgore. Most of them centered on the same question: What sort of newspaper should they publish?

2007 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 29 Jan. The Germans were falling back, although putting up a stiff rearguard defence, and the Allies were in hot pursuit.

单词	rearguard defence
释义	> as lemmas rearguard defence C1. attributive. Designating fighting involving the rearguard of an army, esp. in order to cover a retreat, as rearguard battle, rearguard defence, rearguard skirmish, etc. Also figurative and in extended use. See also rearguard action n. at Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1838 F. Shoberl tr. A. Thiers Hist. French Revol. III. 444 We had now only rear-guard battles to fight. 1921 J. Buchan Hist. Great War I. x. 228 Only the 9th Corps, of all the contemplated offensive, went into action, and then only in a rearguard skirmish. 1957 Times 10 July 11/6 Molotov and Kaganovich..have fought a prolonged and stubborn rearguard battle against all the reformist changes in Soviet policy. 1986 E. E. Scharff Worldly Power iv. 61 Grimes seemed to have fought an endless succession of rear-guard battles against Kilgore. Most of them centered on the same question: What sort of newspaper should they publish? 2007 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 29 Jan. The Germans were falling back, although putting up a stiff rearguard defence, and the Allies were in hot pursuit. extracted from rearguardn.¹ < as lemmas
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