单词 | barrack |
释义 | bar·rack I. 1. < he lodged in a miserable hut or barrack composed of dry branches and thatched with straw — Edward Gibbon > 2. or barracks plural but singular or plural in construction a. < stepped into the barrack and blew his whistle — L.M.Uris > < the dormitory where I was quartered was like an army barracks — John Cheever > b. 3. or barracks plural but singular or plural in construction a. < the construction gang occupied a wooden barrack on the site of the job > < accommodated in a barely furnished barracks for commercial travelers — William Sansom > b. < the big house on the hill … and the factory barracks in the valley — W.A.White > < the grim, toplofty barracks that we are now building — Lewis Mumford > 4. Northeast II. < buildings … used to barrack George Washington's troops in 1775 — Official Register of Harvard University > III. intransitive verb chiefly Australia a. < had to undergo some barracking for playing slowly — P.F.Warner > b. < his game would lose a lot of its venom if the crowd were not barracking for him — Jack Crawford > transitive verb chiefly Australia < the crowd started to barrack me and shout for me to kick the ball clear — Irish Digest > |
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