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单词 siege
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London is not a city under siege.We have to guard against the siege mentality.Life does not have to be one long siege.The siege ended when police forced their way into the house and shot him.Do you know what the longest military siege in history was?But it seems the command and control of this siege operation lacked all those things.It feels like the whole city is under siege.But the train is equipped to withstand a long siege.The siege mentality has brought a togetherness that would have been unimaginable a matter of months ago.The town has been under siege by government forces since July.Suddenly, the siege began to lift in no uncertain fashion.Special forces end the siege, not knowing if the next moment will be their last.How can anyone talk when they haven't lifted the siege?Phnom Penh was a city under siege.The siege was the longest in British penal history.Most recently, he served a prison sentence for his part in an armed siege led by two escaped criminals.They kept on coming, many after police ended the siege at the Bataclan concert.The hotel staff are involved in an armed siege (above) in the season finale.And as a crash course in Roman siege tactics and military engineering, it could hardly be bettered.I don't want people coming into this city feeling that they've walked into siege town.

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siege

British English: siege NOUN
A siege is a military or police operation in which soldiers or police surround a place in order to force the people there to come out or give up control of the place.
We must do everything possible to lift the siege.
  • American English: siege
  • Brazilian Portuguese: sítio
  • Chinese: 包围
  • European Spanish: cerco
  • French: siège
  • German: Belagerung
  • Italian: assedio
  • Japanese: 包囲
  • Korean: 포위
  • European Portuguese: sítio
  • Latin American Spanish: cerco

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Chinese translation of 'siege'

siege

(siːdʒ)

n (c)

  1. 围(圍)困 (wéikùn)
    to lift a siege 解围(圍) (jiěwéi)
    to be under siege 被围(圍)困 (bèi wéikùn)
    to lay siege to [police, soldiers] 围(圍)攻 (wéigōng) [journalists] 包围(圍) (bāowéi)
(noun) 
Definition
a similar operation carried out by police, for example to force people out of a place
We must do everything possible to lift the siege.
Synonyms
blockade
They agreed to lift their blockades of main roads.
encirclement
besiegement

Synonyms of 'siege'

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