bulwarks

英 [ˈbʊlwəks]

美 [ˈbʊlwərks]

n.  保护者，防御者(指人或事物); 堡垒; 防御工事; (船的)舷墙
bulwark的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 防护；壁垒
  Abulwark againstsomething protects you against it. Abulwark ofsomething protects it.
  1. The abbeys were founded in the 12th century by King David as a bulwark against the English...
     这些修道院是12世纪大卫王用来抵御英国人而修建的堡垒。
  2. The House of Lords is the only bulwark of democracy in this country.
     在这个国家，上议院是唯一的民主堡垒。

双语例句

• They have the means to provide new bulwarks of the multilateral system.
  它们有能力为多边体系提供新的支柱。
• SA8000 is an international social accountability management system. The social accountability rules compose trade bulwarks. Its also superiority resource of international competition, from the aspect of development.
  SA是国际统一执行的社会责任管理体系，其规定的社会责任规则，一方面看来构成了贸易壁垒，而从发展的角度看则是参与国际竞争的优势资源。
• Seeing Peter slowly advancing upon him through the air with dagger poised, he sprang upon the bulwarks to cast himself into the sea.
  看到彼得举着剑慢慢地凌空向他飞来，他跳上了船舷，纵身跳下海。
• I remember the bulwarks by the shore.
  我记得岸上的防御工事。
• The prime cause of green bulwarks lies in the disequilibrium of socio-economy development between the developed countries and the developing countries, and the disequilibrium is nearly impossible to change in short period.
  绿色壁垒存在的根本原因在于发达国家与发展中国家不平衡的社会经济发展水平，这种不平衡在短期内很难改变。
• As a WTO memberships, technique bulwarks of advanced country have become the important factors of baffling exportation of our country farm production.
  我国加入世贸组织后，发达国家的技术壁垒已成为阻碍农产品出口的重要因素。
• How will the agricultural product export face the broad technique bulwarks
  农产品出口如何面对国外技术壁垒
• Health ( along with education and pensions) used to be provided through government enterprises in cities and communes in the countryside, both bulwarks of the state that have disintegrated in recent years, leaving a vacuum to be filled by a user-pays system.
  过去，医疗（以及教育和养老金）由城市中的国有企业和农村公社买单。而最近几年，政府的这两大堡垒已经瓦解，留下了一个由用者自付体系来填补的真空。
• Surgery and X-irradiation nevertheless remain the bulwarks of cancer treatment throughout the world.
  外科手术和X射线疗法依然是全世界治疗癌症的主要方法。
• However, to fully realize the regional economic cooperation, the administrative bulwarks in different regions should be eliminated.
  然而要真正实现区域经济深度合作，必须破除地方间存在的行政壁垒。