[每日] bivouac (n) 臨時紮營
Word of the Day (Wednesday October 29, 2008)
bivouac \BIV-wak, BIV-uh-wak\, noun:
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1. An encampment for the night, usually under little or no
shelter.
intransitive verb:
1. To encamp for the night, usually under little or no shelter.
Rob had made his emergency bivouac just below the South Summit.
-- David Breashears, "Death on the mountain", The Observer, March
30, 2003
They were stopped by savage winds and forced to bivouac 153 m
below the day's goal.
-- Erik Weihenmayer, "Men of the Mountain", Time Pacific, February
4, 2002
Bivouac comes from French bivouac, from German Beiwache, "a
watching or guarding," from bei, "by, near" + wachen, "to watch."
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