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In war, a beachhead is a strip of shore that soldiers have taken from the enemy after landing from the sea. It is small at first. The army holds it, brings in more people and supplies, and then tries to push inland. News and history books use the word for those landings. People also stretch it: a company that opens one small office in a new country may call that office a beachhead — a first foothold from which they hope to move further. The fighting sense is the home meaning; the business sense is a picture borrowed from it. It is fairly formal language, not playground talk.
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組成From beach + head. Head here is not the thing on your neck; it is an old use of head for a front position you hold. A beachhead is a held position on the beach.
同家族的字
- beachthe first half: the shore of the landing
- bridgeheadthe same “head” idea for a foothold, but at a bridge or river crossing
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
beachheadnoun/ˈbiːt͡ʃhɛd/
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governmentmilitarypoliticsAn area of hostile territory (especially on a beach) that, when captured, serves for the continuous landing (or movement into position) of further troops and material
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A coastal landing place.
- [...] the SR is confident of Newhaven's appeal as a starting point convenient for Southern England generally and of Dieppe's attraction as a beachhead from which motorists' routes to the principal holiday areas from the French coastline will be shortened.
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An initial success that ensures the possibility of further advances in a project; a foothold.
- Muslim influence in Arakan was of great cultural and political importance. In effect, Arakan was the beachhead for Muslim penetration into other parts of Burma even if it never achieved the same degree of importance it did in Arakan. As a result of the close land and sea contacts maintained between the two countries, Muslims played a key role in the history of the Kingdom of Arakan.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。