dunkirk
美 英
n. 敦克尔克
v. 狼狈地撤退
英英释义
Noun- a crisis in which a desperate effort is the only alternative to defeat;
"the Russians had to pull off a Dunkirk to get out of there"
- a seaport in northern France on the North Sea; scene of the evacuation of British forces in 1940 during World War II
- an amphibious evacuation in World War II (1940) when 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches in northern France in a desperate retreat under enemy fire
例句
用作名词(n.)- Hundreds of small boats set out from ports on the English coast to bring back the soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk in France.数以百计的小船从英国海岸出发,从法国的敦克尔克将士兵载回英国。