Barrage



GRE 蓝宝 Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 弹幕;堰, 拦河坝
• ［英］ n. 弹幕 ( a curtain of artillery fire) 堰, 拦河坝 ( barrier built to store water for irrigation)
• ［类］ barrage : explosives / deluge : rain ( 连续发炮形成弹幕 / 连续降雨形成暴雨)

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: French, from barrer to bar, from barre bar
• Date: 1845
• a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation

II. noun

• Etymology: French (tir de) barrage barrier fire
• Date: 1916
• 1. artillery fire laid on a line close to friendly troops to screen and protect them
• 2. a vigorous or rapid outpouring or projection of many things at once <a barrage of protests>

III. transitive verb (barraged; barraging)

• Date: 1918
• to deliver a barrage against

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