trench

• n. 沟，沟渠；战壕；堑壕
• vt. 掘沟
• vi. 挖战壕；侵害
• n. (Trench)人名；(英、西)特伦奇

来自古法语 trenchier,去砍，劈，刨，挖，来自拉丁语 truncare,砍，切掉，词源同 truncate,tranche. 后引申词义沟，渠，特指战壕。

1. a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth

2. a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

3. any long ditch cut in the ground

trench

trench: [14] A trench is etymologically something ‘cut’ or ‘sliced’. The word was borrowed from Old French trenche ‘slice, cutting, ditch’, a derivative of trenchier ‘cut’ (from which English gets trenchant [14]). And this in turn went back to Latin truncāre ‘cut, mutilate’ (source of English truncate [15]), a derivative of truncus ‘tree-trunk, torso’ (source of English trunk) – the semantic link being the ‘cutting’ of branches from a tree or of limbs from a body.

The sense ‘ditch’ for trench comes of course from the notion of ‘cutting’ a long narrow hole in the ground (a similar inspiration underlies cutting ‘excavation for a railway, road, etc’). Trencher ‘platter’ [14] came from the Anglo-Norman derivative trenchour, and originally denoted both a board for ‘cutting’ food up on and a ‘slice’ of bread used as a plate.
=> trenchant, trencher, truncate, trunk

trench (n.)

late 14c., "track cut through a wood," later "long, narrow ditch" (late 15c.), from Old French trenche "a slice, cut, gash, slash; defensive ditch" (13c., Modern French tranche), from trenchier "to cut, carve, slice," possibly from Vulgar Latin *trincare, from Latin truncare "to cut or lop off" (see truncate). Trenches for military protection are first so called c. 1500. Trench warfare first attested 1918. Trench-coat first recorded 1916, a type of coat worn by British officers in the trenches during World War I.

life in the trenches

第一次世界大战期间的战壕生活

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trench warfare

堑壕战

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We fought with them in the trenches.

我们曾在一战西线战场上与他们并肩作战。

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...trench warfare.

堑壕战

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Instead of the war ending quickly, it became bogged down in trench warfare.

冲突不但没有很快结束, 而且还加剧成为堑壕战.

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To dig or make a long narrow trench or furrow in.

挖或筑狭长的沟渠或细沟.

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Learning how to assault an enemy trench line is essential to becoming a good battlefield commander.

要想成为一个优秀的战地指挥官,学习如何突袭一条敌军战壕是一门必修课程.

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The soldiers recaptured their trench.

兵士夺回了战壕.

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You are in the trench and have weapons at your disposal.

你位于堑壕和在你的丢弃有武器.

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He takes off his hat and trench coat and reveals himself.

他脱掉了帽子和深沟的外套,露出了原形.

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Surrounded by mountains, springs out a trench.

四周环山, 沟内有泉水流出.

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You're required to manoeuvre straight down this trench and skim the surface to this point.

你们必须低飞到这个狭沟,然后沿着狭沟而行,直到这一点.

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He gave me the thumbs up sign and then disappeared into his trench.

他拇指向上给了我一个赞成的姿势,然后就消失在他的战壕中.

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Straw in a nature reserve forest trench Cyclobalanopsis Xiaolongshan Forest District.

麦草沟青冈次生林自然保护区处于小陇山林区的中心地带.

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Under certain conditions, guerrilla warfare works better to the overall victory than trench warfare.

在某些情况下, 游击战术比沟槽战术更能制胜.

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And the water went around the altar, and he filled the trench also with water.

35他们就倒第三次.水流在坛的四围, 沟里也满了水.

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Sanjiaocheng Ming monuments, red trench Bailing Temple, and Temple Ruins.

古迹有明代三角城 、 红沟寺和百灵寺遗址.

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They recaptured their trench.

他们重新夺回了堑壕.

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We also like you to become business partners with a trench comrades in arms.

我们还愿与你们成为事业伙伴一个战壕的战友.

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To create a one metre wide path you need to excavate a one metre wide trench.

要建一条一米宽的小路,你需要开凿一条一米宽的深沟.

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Soldiers are hurrying to dig a communications trench.

战士们正在抓紧时间挖交通壕.

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W . W . I was fought with trench warfare.

第一次世界大战打的是堑壕战.

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The universal accessible design by Margaret Trench Cross School was voted as the most favourite design.

玛嘉烈戴麟趾红十字会学校的[无障碍社区]设计赢得参加者的支持,以最高票数获得[我最喜爱的社区设计]奖项.

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The trench would definitely be the masterpiece, over a simple dress and some boots.

一件出自名家设计的经典风衣, 搭配简洁的裙装和靴子.

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To cut a trench in.

在圆柱体里开一道沟.

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This will keep your feet as dry as possible, and could save you from trench foot.

这样可以让你的脚尽可能的保持干燥, 让你远离战壕足病.

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The trench deepened over the years, though for whatever reason, did not kill the tree.

年复一年, 沟痕越来越深,不知什么原因, 这沟痕并没有把榆树置于死地.

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Investigators found a trench containing human remains.

调查人员发现一条沟中有人的体.

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