[每日] bulwark (n) 堡壘
Word of the Day (Tuesday December 2, 2008)
bulwark \BUL-wurk; -wawrk\, noun, verb:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/1357L
1. to defend or protect, serve as a bulwark; shelter
noun:
1. a person, thing, or concept that is a defense or protection
2. an embankment of earth or other material used as a defense
against a threat; rampart
noun (pl.):
1. the sides of a ship extending like a fence above the deck
level
The French eventually prevailed, and Asher and his ally Alex
were kicked up north to the town of Siem Reap, where they helped
reconstruct the earthquake-damaged Elephant Wall, an
infuriatingly complicated Khmer bulwark that had fallen into
several hundred pieces some centuries ago.
-- Robert Bingham, Lightning on the Sun
Originally a set of largely structural guarantees applying only
against the federal government, the Bill has become a bulwark of
rights against all government conduct.
-- Akhil Reed Amar, The Bill of Rights: Creation and
Reconstruction
The country has overwhelming importance to America as a strategic
ally in a highly volatile Islamic region; indeed, Washington is
counting on it to be a bulwark against the spread of Islamic
fundamentalism into Europe.
-- Jeffrey E. Garten, The Big Ten: The Big Emerging Markets and
How They Will Change Our Lives
For Laura's mother the church, in addition to what spiritual
significance it possessed, stood out as a bulwark of civilization
in the midst of a still forming, rough frontier culture.
-- John E. Miller, Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman
Behind the Legend
Today we bulwark an older, liberal-Christian Europe against newer
atheistic totalitarian forces.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin, We, the People, in Quest of Ourselves, New
York Times, 4/29/1959
c.1418, from Middle Dutch bulwerke or Middle High German bolwerc,
from bole "plank, tree trunk" + werc "work." The figurative sense
dates from 1577.
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