- 1稜堡、小型堡壘。跟 doubt（懷疑）無關；比喻時可當「最後據點」。
A redoubt is a small strong place that soldiers hold in a fight — a little fort, an earth wall, a spot they can fall back to. books sometimes say “a small hidden place,” and that is the feeling, but it is more military than a child hiding behind a sofa: people are defending it. The word is old-fashioned and a bit ; you will meet it in history writing more than in speech. Writers also stretch it: a redoubt of old manners is a last small place where that thing still holds on. Though actually, the spelling looks like re- plus doubt, and that is a trap. It is not about feeling unsure.
組成From French redoute, from Italian ridotta, from Medieval Latin reductus (“refuge”), from Latin redūcō (“to withdraw”). The English spelling was influenced by doubt, which is why it looks like that word.
原始詞典資料7 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。
redoubtnoun詞源 1/ɹɪˈdaʊt/
- 1
A small, temporary, military fortification.
- 2
A reinforced refuge; a fort.
- 3
A place of safety or refuge.
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text To the south, the vast geometrical deserts of Arabian nomads, a redoubt of feral movement, of fickle winds, of open space, of saddle leather—home to the wild Bedouin tribes.
redoubtverb詞源 1/ɹɪˈdaʊt/
- 1
To fortify, to make into a stronghold.
- By the time that our troops had taken a little refreshment, a quantity of intrenching tools were brought a-shore, and the regiments were employed in redoubting our ground, and landing some cannon and ammunition.
- I have been employed from the day of action to that of the capitulation, in redoubting our Camp beyond insult
redoubtverb詞源 2/ɹɪˈdaʊt/
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archaicTo dread.
redoubtverb詞源 3/ˌɹiːˈdaʊt/
- 1
rareTo doubt again.
- Neither any of ſo many hundreds of expleaded, or nowe raigning hereſies, or any that ſhall ariſe hereafter, nor the Religion of Martine Luther so often profeſſed, and both priuately and publickly recanted, altered, changed, doubted, and redoubted by himſelfe, as his owne works and all proteſtants doe witneſſe...
- Herr Fessler, in the true spirit of a metaphysical Zittémteur, has taken the subject up in the most orthodox style of Fog; descanting, and doubting, and redoubting, until the Fog becomes positively impervious
redoubtnoun詞源 3/ˌɹiːˈdaʊt/
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rareThe return of doubt.
- Undeterred by humble beginning, undaunted by frustrations imposed by others of lesser stature, undismayed by the doubts and redoubts of personal, political and elemental forces, he persevered, he pursued and he prevailed
- My stock is a 3-1 bet to split by then, providing I have the guts to stonewall the supreme court of last resort, Key Biscayne, with my claim to gutlessly (i.e., physically unreally) surrounding the citadel with a mote in the beam of the Don, my brother's eye, a doubt and redoubt in the possibility of man's redemption.
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