trench

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trench /trentʃ/ noun [countableC]

1 HOLEa long narrow hole dug into the surface of the ground 壕沟；沟渠

Workers dug a trench for gas lines.

工人们挖了一条沟来铺设煤气管道。

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

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

the trenches of World War I

第一次世界大战的堑壕

4 the trenches the 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。

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.

Origin trench

(1300-1400) Old French trenche “act of cutting”, from trenchier “to cut”, probably from Latin truncare; → TRUNCATE

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