strongholds

英 [ˈstrɒŋhəʊldz]

美 [ˈstrɔŋˌhoʊldz]

n.  有广泛支持的地方; 势力强大的地方; 堡垒; 要塞; 据点; (某种动物的)主要栖息地
stronghold的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (持共同态度或信仰的人的)大本营，据点
  If you say that a place or region is astronghold ofa particular attitude or belief, you mean that most people there share this attitude or belief.
  1. The westernmost part of north Wales is a stronghold of Welsh-speakers...
     北威尔士最西部是说威尔士语人的聚居区。
  2. The seat was a stronghold of the Labour party.
     这个选区是工党的大本营。
• N-COUNT (某种动物的)主要栖息地
  If you say that a place is astrongholdof a particular type of animal, you mean that more of that type of animal live there than in other places.
  1. Shetland is the last stronghold of otters in the British Isles.
     设得兰群岛是水獭在不列颠群岛上最后的栖息地。

双语例句

• Do you know the Strongholds trade in creatures?
  你知道吗&在据点城能买卖生物。
• But the government dispatched paramilitary forces to root out militant strongholds near Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.
  但是，巴基斯坦政府还是派遣了准军事部队去消灭西北边境省首府白沙瓦附近的激进组织据点。
• Kismayo is one of the strongholds of the al-Shabab rebels, who have banned all trade with government-controlled Dobley.
  当地的居民马哈穆德说，基斯马尤是青年党叛军的据点之一，他们在那里禁止和政府军控制的多布莱镇之间的买卖。
• Dagger Lake is full of islands where they lurk in hidden caves and secret strongholds.
  达格湖里的众多岛屿是他们的聚居点和藏身地。
• So I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour her strongholds.
  所以我将派遣一个消防后墙上的加沙，和它应吃掉她的据点。
• The Taliban seized Kabul in1996 and captured most of the country outside of Northern Alliance strongholds primarily in the northeast.
  1996年，塔利班夺取喀布尔，并占领了除主要在东北活动的北方联盟之外的绝大部分领土。
• He probes the enemy's weak positions, ignoring his strongholds
  他侦察敌人兵力薄弱的位置，对其要塞不予理睬。
• The enemy was holed up in a few isolated strongholds.
  敌人龟缩在几个孤立的据点里。
• Another insurgent group al-Shabab has also been closing in on the pirate's strongholds in recent weeks.
  最近几周，另外一个反叛组织青年党也在打击海盗的堡垒。
• Babylon's warriors have stopped fighting; they remain in their strongholds.
  巴比伦的勇士止息争战，藏在坚垒之中。