trench
noun /trentʃ/
/trentʃ/
- a long, deep hole dug in the ground, for example for carrying away water
沟；渠 - Workmen were digging a trench beside the road.
工人们正在路边挖一条沟。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deep
- narrow
- shallow
- …
- dig
- warfare
- foot
- in the trench
- Workmen were digging a trench beside the road.
- a long, deep hole dug in the ground in which soldiers can be protected from enemy attacks (for example in northern France and Belgium in the First World War)
战壕，堑壕（如第一次世界大战期间在法国北部和比利时开挖的） - life in the trenches
战壕生活 - They had not been prepared for the horrors of trench warfare.
他们对堑壕战的恐怖经历还没有思想准备。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deep
- narrow
- shallow
- …
- dig
- warfare
- foot
- in the trench
- life in the trenches
- (also ocean trench)a long, deep, narrow hole in the ocean floor
海沟；大洋沟
词源late Middle English (in the senses ‘track cut through a wood’ and ‘sever by cutting’): from Old French trenche (noun), trenchier (verb), based on Latin truncare ‘to maim’.