strongholds

英 [ˈstrɒŋhəʊldz]

美 [ˈstrɔŋˌhoʊldz]

n.  有广泛支持的地方; 势力强大的地方; 堡垒; 要塞; 据点; (某种动物的)主要栖息地
stronghold的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (持共同态度或信仰的人的)大本营，据点
  If you say that a place or region is astronghold ofa particular attitude or belief, you mean that most people there share this attitude or belief.
  1. The westernmost part of north Wales is a stronghold of Welsh-speakers...
     北威尔士最西部是说威尔士语人的聚居区。
  2. The seat was a stronghold of the Labour party.
     这个选区是工党的大本营。
• N-COUNT (某种动物的)主要栖息地
  If you say that a place is astrongholdof a particular type of animal, you mean that more of that type of animal live there than in other places.
  1. Shetland is the last stronghold of otters in the British Isles.
     设得兰群岛是水獭在不列颠群岛上最后的栖息地。

双语例句

• The government has responded with a wave of air strikes against PKK strongholds in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.
  政府以一系列的空袭打击了库尔德人控制的伊拉克北部的库尔德工人党据点。
• And we gave our troops a new mission: Work with Iraqi forces to protect the Iraqi people, pursue the enemy in its strongholds, and deny the terrorists sanctuary anywhere in the country.
  我们向我们的军队布置了一项新的任务：与伊拉克部队合作保护伊拉克人民，追击躲在堡垒里的敌人，在伊拉克任何地方都不给恐怖分子以藏身之地。
• However, forces loyal to leader Moammar Gadhafi continue to strike rebel-held strongholds at Ajdabiya and Misrata.
  不过，效忠卡扎菲的军队继续对反政府武装控制的据点艾季达比耶和米苏拉塔进行炮击。
• Do you know the Strongholds trade in creatures?
  你知道吗&在据点城能买卖生物。
• Even the government's strongholds do not appear secure.
  甚至政府方的根据地也不见得安全。
• So I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour her strongholds.
  所以我将派遣一个消防后墙上的加沙，和它应吃掉她的据点。
• He probes the enemy's weak positions, ignoring his strongholds
  他侦察敌人兵力薄弱的位置，对其要塞不予理睬。
• The enemy was holed up in a few isolated strongholds.
  敌人龟缩在几个孤立的据点里。
• This area was on the adversary's right flank, behind the lake, where their units held fortified strongholds surrounded by minefields.
  这个地区是敌人的右翼，就在湖的后面，那里的德国人守备在地雷包围着的经过加强的防御工事中。
• But the government dispatched paramilitary forces to root out militant strongholds near Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.
  但是，巴基斯坦政府还是派遣了准军事部队去消灭西北边境省首府白沙瓦附近的激进组织据点。