- 1堡壘、捍衛者(常用於抽象事物)
A bastion is a place, group, or thing that strongly protects and defends an important idea, tradition, or way of life — 'a bastion of free speech' is a place where free speech is especially protected and valued, almost like a fortress for that idea. The word actually started out as a literal military term: a bastion was a part of a fort's wall that stuck outward, built so defenders could see and fire in more directions. Today the figurative use — defending an idea, not a castle — is far more common.
From the word’s history
First attested 1562; from French bastion, from Old French, compare bastille 'fortress'.
1562 年首見，借自法文 bastion，和 bastille「堡壘」有關。
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bastionnoun/ˈbæsti.ən/
- 1
architectureA projecting part of a rampart or other fortification.
- […] Fort Camosun had swelled herself from being a little Hudson's Bay Fort, inside a stockade with bastions at the corners, into being the little town of Victoria, and the capital of British Columbia.
- 2
A well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel.
- 3
A person, group, or thing, that strongly defends some principle.
- a bastion of hope
- the bastion of democracy
- 4
Any large prominence; something that resembles a bastion in size and form.
- […] yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a labouring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.
- It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.
bastionverb/ˈbæsti.ən/
- 1
To furnish with a bastion.
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