4the trenchesthe place or situation where most of the work or action in an activity takes place 第一线〔指某一活动进行得最热烈的地方或场面〕
Lane left teaching after 30 years in the trenches.
在一线工作30年后,莱恩离开了教学岗位。
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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 nicefolks get awfulupset when somebody goes out and jumps into the trenches and tries to make it work.• When the shelling and mortaringceased, 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 exceptfeminists and women returned to the trenches and put under siegenoticed what was happening.
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trench• Workers dug a trench for gas lines.• There had been such a wideexpanse of firm ground that a trench had never been worn.• Downbuckling is marked by an offshoretrench.• 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 nicefolks get awfulupset 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 roadsideditch.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + TRENCH | TRENCH + NOUN | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤deep, narrow, shallow深壕;窄溝;淺溝▸➤muddy泥濘的溝渠▸➤defensive防禦戰壕▸➤enemy敵人的戰壕▸➤communication, front-line, slit交通壕;前線的戰壕;狹長掩壕VERB + TRENCH➤dig挖溝TRENCH + NOUN➤warfare塹壕戰➤foot壕溝足(一種腳氣病)◇The soldiers had to be treated for trench foot.士兵們因得了壕溝足而必須治療。PREPOSITION➤in the trench在戰壕中◇life in the trenches in the First World War第一次世界大戰的戰壕生活