rout
noun /raʊt/
/raʊt/
[singular]Idioms - a situation in which somebody is defeated easily and completely in a battle or competition
溃败；彻底失败 - Only the skill of the goalkeeper prevented the match from turning into a rout.
只有守门员的技巧阻止了这场比赛变成溃败。 - The offensive into rebel-held territory had ended in a rout.
对叛军领地的进攻以彻底失败告终。
Collocations Dictionaryverb + rout- become
- turn into
- put somebody to
- …
词源Middle English: ultimately based on Latin ruptus ‘broken’, from the verb rumpere; the current senses (late 16th cent.) are from obsolete French route, probably from Italian rotta ‘break-up of an army’; the other senses are via Anglo-Norman French rute. - Only the skill of the goalkeeper prevented the match from turning into a rout.
Idioms
put somebody to rout
- (literary) to defeat somebody easily and completely
彻底打败；使溃败 - They put the rebel army to rout.
他们彻底击溃了叛军。
- They put the rebel army to rout.