- 1要塞、堡壘（比「城堡」更強調防守，不是童話裡的城堡）
A fortress is a large, strong building — or a whole set of walls and towers — built to defend an important place. A castle can be a fortress, but fortress is about defence first: thick walls, a high place, soldiers inside. People also stretch the word: her home felt like a fortress means a place that is very hard to get into, not a real fort. There is an old verb to fortress, meaning to protect a place as if it were a fort, but you will almost never hear it now; the noun is the word that lives.
From the word’s history
From Old French forteresce 'strong place', from Medieval Latin fortalitia, from Latin fortis 'strong'.
源自古法文 forteresce「堅固的地方」，來自拉丁文 fortis「強」。
組成From Old French forteresse, a strong place, from Medieval Latin fortalitia, from Latin fortis, strong, plus an ending that turns an adjective into a noun. That French ending -ess (from Latin -itia) is the same kind you hear in duress and prowess.
原始詞典資料3 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。
fortressnoun/ˈfoɹ.tɹɪs/
- 1
A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; for example a fort, a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.
- Like the Mesolithic age of 10,000-8000 B.C., the period 6000-4000 B.C. seems to be one of the fall of fortresses and the rise of pastoral nomadism.
- 2
board-gameschessgamesA position that, if obtained by the weaker side, will prevent penetration by the opposing side, generally achieving a draw.
fortressverb/ˈfoɹ.tɹɪs/
- 1
To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard, to fortify.
- Honour and Beautie in the owners armes, / Are weaklie fortreſt from a world of harmes.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。