trench

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A long, narrow ditch or hole in the ground; either manmade, or formed naturally through erosion or tectonic plate movement.
    — The trenches for installing the underground cables were dug with a trencher.
  2. A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
    — The soldiers in the trenches rely on logistical support.
  3. A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
  4. A trench coat. informal
    — I was the first person in my high school to wear a trench and fedora constantly, and Ben was one of the first to wear a black trench.
动词 v.
  1. To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach. usually
    — Shee is the Judge, Thou Executioner, Or if thou needs would'st trench upon her power, Thou mightst have yet enjoy'd thy crueltie, With some more thrift, and more varietie.
  2. To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
    — No more shall trenching war channel her fields.
  3. To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
  4. To have direction; to aim or tend.
    — the reason and consequence thereof may trench to point of estate
  5. To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
    — The wide wound that the boar had trenched / In his soft flank.
  6. To cut furrows or ditches in.
    — to trench land for the purpose of draining it
  7. To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
    — to trench a garden for certain crops

词形变化

trenches plural trenches present,singular,third-person trenching participle,present trenched participle,past trenched past

词汇关系

下位词
fire trench Java Trench Mariana Trench oceanic trench slit trench stench trench Sunda Trench Tonga Trench
衍生词
betrench countertrench detrench entrench entrenching tool flame trench in the trenches microtrench micro trenching mini-trench nanotrench palisade trench retrench subtrench trench art trench binoculars trench boot trench broom trench club trench coat trench cut trench derby trench dress trench effect trencher trench fever trench foot trenchful trench knife trenchless trenchlet trenchlike trenchline trench mentality trench mortar trench mouth trench plate trench-plough trench-plow trench stick trench sweeper trenchward trenchwards trench warfare trenchwise trenchwork
相关词
tranche trenchant

词源

词源 1
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trenche. Doublet of tranche and traunch. Possible doublet of English: truncate
词源 2
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trenche. Doublet of tranche and traunch. Possible doublet of English: truncate
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