stronghold的意思|stronghold的解释-里氏词典

stronghold ['strɒŋhәuld]

n. 要塞, 堡垒, 大本营

stronghold

[ noun ]
a strongly fortified defensive structure
<noun.artifact>

Stronghold \Strong"hold`\, n.
A fastness; a fort or fortress; fortfield place; a place of
security.

Hold \Hold\ (h[=o]ld), n.
1. The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the
manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp;
clasp; grip; possession; -- often used with the verbs take
and lay.

Ne have I not twelve pence within mine hold.
--Chaucer.

Thou should'st lay hold upon him. --B. Jonson.

My soul took hold on thee. --Addison.

Take fast hold of instruction. --Pror. iv.
13.

2. The authority or ground to take or keep; claim.

The law hath yet another hold on you. --Shak.

3. Binding power and influence.

Fear . . . by which God and his laws take the surest
hold of. --Tillotson.

4. Something that may be grasped; means of support.

If a man be upon an high place without rails or good
hold, he is ready to fall. --Bacon.

5. A place of confinement; a prison; confinement; custody;
guard.

They . . . put them in hold unto the next day.
--Acts. iv. 3.

King Richard, he is in the mighty hold
Of Bolingbroke. --Shak.

6. A place of security; a fortified place; a fort; a castle;
-- often called a {stronghold}. --Chaucer.

New comers in an ancient hold --Tennyson.

7. (Mus.) A character [thus ?] placed over or under a note or
rest, and indicating that it is to be prolonged; -- called
also {pause}, and {corona}.

Gunfire erupted in the city's Bab el-Oued Moslem stronghold last night as police surrounded the area.
The impoverished northeast was once the stronghold of the Communists, who fielded about 12,000 fighters at the peak of power in the late 1970s.
The mountain fighting centered on Ein el-Tuffaha, 18 miles east of Beirut, and the Christian stronghold of Souk el-Gharb, 16 miles to the south.
The craftsmen were taken from their homes Friday by four men in military clothing and armed with assault rifles and revolvers in Ayacucho, a rebel stronghold about 230 miles southeast of Lima, according to a victim's daughter.
Most of the 15 foreign hostages in Lebanon are believed to be in the southern suburbs, Hezbollah's stronghold.
"They pulled out all the stops, and still they got beat," in a rural prefecture that had been a stronghold for the ruling party until a Socialist candidate captured the Upper House seat three years ago amid a previous round of scandals.
The report said about 65 percent of people in northern Minho province go to church regularly, but the number dips below 5 percent in the southern Alentejo, the rural stronghold of the Communist Party.
He also noted the younger vote against the 69-year-old senator and the declining populations in many rural areas, a Helms stronghold.
The spokesman said casualty reports were sketchy because radio contact with the Kurdish stronghold south of the Turkish border was difficult.
About 500 Burmese government troops clashed with Thai soldiers today after crossing the border to launch an attack on a Karen rebel stronghold, a Thai officer said.
Turin has always been a citta rossa, a stronghold of the left, which has drawn on the support of Fiat employees.
The body of Jewish religious teachings lists other disasters said to have accurred on that day, such as the fall of Beitar, the last stronghold of anti-Roman Jewish rebels, in 135 A.D. and the creation of a Roman temple in Jerusalem a year later.
Once this was a Maori stronghold.
Government troops also attacked Bagram air base, another rebel stronghold.
He has disclosed that he's been prevented from visiting Lithuania, the Roman Catholic stronghold in the Soviet Union, and insists that he must be allowed to visit with his flock on any pilgrimage.
Mrs Roberton told Maketu that he would be taken to Auckland and hanged for his crime - whereupon he carried her and the two children to the dizzy heights of the stronghold and hurled them into the sea. The widow's prediction came true.
After a day of northern artillery fire on the southern stronghold of Aden, Sanaa television reported northern President Ali Abdullah Saleh had ordered his forces to observe a ceasefire from 6 pm yesterday.
The Hrawi aide said among the areas to be cleared of fighters are the south Beirut slums, stronghold of the fundamentalist Shiite Moslem Hezbollah, or Party of God.
As Gen Rose held talks in Bihac, fighting flared in the north of the enclave around Mr Abdic's stronghold of Velika Kladusa, with some 87 shells falling near the town, according to a UN spokesman in Zagreb.
U.N. officials report that when they visit the southern Iraqi city of Basra, a Shiite stronghold, they hear gunfire at night.
The longest prison siege in British history ended Wednesday when the last five inmates at Strangeways prison abandoned their rooftop stronghold.
Anti-government sentiment in Kwangju, a traditional opposition stronghold, has been inflamed by the death of a radical student earlier this month.
The guerrillas detonated the mine when a lorry carrying the policemen approached Warangal Town, a Maoist stronghold in Andhra Pradesh.
The moderate Tamil political party Tamil United Liberation Front also has said the elections be postponed because of the turbulence in the north and east, the Tigers' stronghold.
"Without the farmers' rebellion against the LDP, the Socialist candidate couldn't have won in Niigata, which is traditionally a conservative stronghold," said Masumi Ishikawa, a political commentator for the national newspaper Asahi Shimbun.
The government, fearing violence, had appealed to the Hindu activists not to hold their procession to Srinagar, a Moslem stronghold in Kashmir, the northern sector of Jammu-Kashmir state.
Hundreds of people fled to west Beirut from Ashrafiyeh, the militia stronghold that has seen the heaviest fighting, but most residents of districts controlled by Aoun appeared to be buying supplies and returning home.
Continental Airlines will reduce by 15% its flights from Denver, its largest hub and biggest stronghold.
From here, the battle of the long-distance carriers is expected to focus on big corporate accounts _ traditionally a stronghold for AT&T, but an area where the newcomers can build a track record that carries over to other businesses, analysts said.
A press officer at police headquarters said infantryman Pvt. Nicholas David Peacock died after a bomb exploded as his joint army-police foot patrol passed a pub in the Falls Road section of West Belfast, an IRA stronghold.

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