a type of armed combat in which the opposing troops fight from trenches that face each other; "instead of the war ending quickly, it became bogged down in trench warfare"
a struggle (usually prolonged) between competing entities in which neither side is able to win; "the hope that his superior campaigning skills would make a difference evaporated in the realization that electioneering had become a form of trench warfare"
Trench warfare is a form of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of trenches, in which troops are significantly protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. The most prominent case of trench warfare is the Western Front in World War I.
例句与用法
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Diplomacy becomes trench warfare . 外交变成了壕沟战。
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Guerrilla warfare works better to the overall victory than trench warfare 对于战争全局的胜利来说,游击战比阵地战更有效
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One recalls from old photographs and movie or television screens , the comatose and glazed expressions of survivors of the great bombardments of world war i and the attendant horrors and death of trench warfare 一个人会从老照片和电影或电视中播放的节目回忆起一战期间猛烈炮战中的生还者呆钝的表情以及参加者恐惧和堑壕战中的屠杀场景。
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Gramsci ' s " civil society " as a unique understanding of the basis of the interpretation of the proletarian ideology of cultural leadership must grasp on the " trench warfare " and the idea of " organic intellectuals " ideology 葛兰西在对“市民社会”作独特理解的基础上,阐释了无产阶级必须掌握意识形态文化领导权、关于“阵地战”的设想以及“有机知识分子”思想。