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Weapons, ammunition (bullets, bombs, shells), and military supplies used by an army, especially heavy equipment like guns and explosives. It's a fairly formal or technical word, mostly seen in military and news contexts, like 'unexploded ordnance' meaning old bombs that never went off.
軍火；軍需品
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ordnancenoun/ˈɔːdnəns/
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Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.
- When the Turkes tooke Conſtantinople, they melted the Bells into Ordnance; I haue heard both Bells and Ordnance, but neuer been ſo much affected with thoſe, as with theſe Bells.
- What Mr. Vance’s trip made clear is that both sides think they emerged as the victor of the first round: the United States by dropping so much ordnance on Iran, the Iranians by surviving. Neither seems in the mood for compromise.
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Artillery.
- Let all the Battlements their Ordinance fire, / The King shal drinke to Hamlets better breath,
- From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.
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。