| 单词 | to lay an ambush |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lay an ambush (a) A positioning of soldiers in a concealed place, in order to surprise and attack an enemy; the surprise attack itself. Frequently in to lay an ambush. Cf. ambuscade n. 1a, ambuscado n. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > [noun] > sudden or surprise attack > ambush wanlacec1330 ambushmentc1380 bushmentc1380 ambush1489 ambuscade1589 ambuscado?1591 embuscado1686 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. ii. sig. Aijv To whom he saide that he shold ordeyne him to bataylle ayenst his enemyes & made an enbusshe [Fr. embusche] for the better to vaynquisshe theym. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. iv. 3 b Theyr watches keepe themselves in an ambush [Fr. embusche] neare unto a wood. 1587 R. Hakluyt tr. R. de Laudonnière Notable Hist. Foure Voy. Florida f. 38 The inhabitantes of his Isle..layde an ambush for him. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. x. 549/2 He affirmes, that it was in the plaine field, ours that it was an Ambush. 1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Gothick Warre iii. 109 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian He layd ambushes upon the way, to cut them off as they fled. 1722 W. Hamilton Life of Sir William Wallace 193 The Ambush then, Bambusl'd all their Game, For with pel-mel the Scots upon them came. 1830 G. P. R. James Hist. Chivalry vii. 136 The rumour was spread that the preparations made by the chiefs, were for the purpose of laying an ambush for the Persian forces. 1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) II. xxxix. 466 A troop of horse, insnared by a false guide in an ambush among large trees. 1945 Daily Mail 16 Jan. 4/2 British troops laid an ambush, from which they killed a satisfactory number of Japs. 2006 R. Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in Emerald City (2007) xiii. 263 He fended off an ambush in southern Baghdad the day after the city's liberation. < as lemmas |
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