trench

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trench /trentʃ/ noun [countableC]

1 HOLEa long narrow hole dug into the surface of the ground 壕溝；溝渠

Workers dug a trench for gas lines.

工人們挖了一條溝來鋪設煤氣管道。

2. technicalHEO a long narrow valley in the ground beneath the sea 海溝

3 PMA[usually plural] a deep trench dug in the ground as a protection for soldiers 戰壕，塹壕

the trenches of World War I

第一次世界大戰的塹壕

4 the trenches the place or situation where most of the work or action in an activity takes place 第一線〔指某一活動進行得最熱烈的地方或場面〕

Lane left teaching after 30 years in the trenches.

在一線工作30年後，萊恩離開了教學崗位。

Examples from the Corpus

the trenches• But down in the trenches, the hegemon's slip is showing.• This was transmitted by fleas from the rats that flourished in the trenches to man.• But we in the trenches just never see the end product.• He and I and Evander were in the trenches together when life seemed simpler.• Those same nice folks get awful upset when somebody goes out and jumps into the trenches and tries to make it work.• When the shelling and mortaring ceased, Taff and I got out of the trenches.• Some men protested, saying it was Christmas, others refused point blank to return to the trenches.• Of course, no one else except feminists and women returned to the trenches and put under siege noticed what was happening.

Examples from the Corpus

trench• Workers dug a trench for gas lines.• There had been such a wide expanse of firm ground that a trench had never been worn.• Downbuckling is marked by an offshore trench.• the Puerto Rico Trench• the fighting men in the trenches of France• But we in the trenches just never see the end product.• Those same nice folks get awful upset when somebody goes out and jumps into the trenches and tries to make it work.• The mosquitoes don't seem to like the rain either, they all seem to be at the back of the trench.• Parapets gradually grew lower and lower until the trench became little deeper than a roadside ditch.

dug ... trench• Fabritsyn dug trenches, tended cattle, and carried rebel arms and explosives between bases.

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