单词	front-line
释义	front lineˌfront ˈline noun Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES 68% of people approve of women fighting on the front lines. Researchers concluded that the front line of HIV prevention had shifted to smaller cities. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Or his practice of filming in the front line, and even beyond the front line? So where is the front line in a war like that? The camera eventually tracks away leaving the boy still shaking his boot, part of the furniture of the front line. The entire front line, with few exceptions, went down in the consuming blast. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorthe place where a war is fought► battlefield the place where two armies fight a battle: · Thousands died on the battlefields of northern France. ► the front line/the front the place where an army is closest to the enemy and where the fighting takes place: · We were now just a few kilometres behind the front line.the Western/Eastern/Russian etc front: · Her grandfather had four years on the Western Front. ► war zone an area which is very dangerous because a war is being fought there: · the latest news from the war zone· Aid workers returning from the war zone reported seeing groups of rebels waving white flags. ► the field (of battle) the time or the place where there is fighting - use this especially to talk about fighting in general: on the field of battle: · It is better to negotiate than to settle political disputes on the field of battle.in the field: · The new weapon has not yet been tried out in the field.· He was awarded a medal for distinguished service in the field. ► theatre British /theater American a large area in which a war is being fought, especially when the war is taking place in several different areas or countries: Pacific/European/Middle East etc theatre: · It was in the Pacific theater of the war that the US won its first major victories.· Many of NATO's nuclear weapons in the European theatre are obsolete. ► war-torn relating to an area where a lot of damage has been caused by war and fighting: · In 1941, Margaret E. Ray escaped war-torn France and landed in New York.· The plan offered long-term aid to war-torn Europe. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► in the front line It would be like having all our soldiers in the front line at the same time. Or his practice of filming in the front line, and even beyond the front line? She is trapped in the front line on the killing streets of Western Sarajevo. They were sitting in the front line of chairs. We really were in the front line. 1[countable usually singular] the place where fighting happens in a war SYN  frontin/on the front line troops who had served in the front line at Magdeburg three miles behind the front line2in the front line a)doing something that has not been done before:  in the front line of the fight against cancer b)likely to be blamed for an organization’s mistakes—ˈfront-line adjective [only before noun]:  front-line troops
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