cordon
cordon 英 [ˈkɔ:dn] 美 [ˈkɔrdn]
n. 警戒线;绶带;束带层 vt. 用警戒线围住;包围隔离
名词复数:cordons
- That yellow police tape and group of officers encircling the crime scene? That's a kind of cordon — something set up to guard something.
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- n. 警戒线;绶带;束带层
- vt. 用警戒线围住;包围隔离
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1. Scotland Yard said a cordon was used because missiles were being thrown at officers.
苏格兰场说使用警戒线是因为一直有投掷物扔向警察。
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2. It has used the pretext of an alleged terrorist threat to impose a restrictive security cordon on the city and curtail visas even for harmless businessmen.
它以所谓恐怖分子的威胁为借口设置限制性安全警戒线于城中,并且削减普通商务人士的签证。
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3. The man had collapsed within a police cordon set up to contain the crowds who had assembled in central London and the City to protest over the G20 summit.
那个人倒在了警察的警戒线之内,这些警戒线是警察为控制在伦敦市中心和伦敦金融城对G20峰会进行示威的人群设置的。
- cordon (n.) mid-15c., "cord, lace, or ribbon of fine material worn as an ornament or token of victory," from Old French cordon "ribbon, cord," diminutive of corde "cord" (see cord). Military sense of "a line of troops or military posts guarding a place" is by 1758.
- cordon (v.) 1560s, "to ornament with a ribbon;" 1855 as "to guard with or as with a military cordon;" from cordon (n.). Related: Cordoned; cordoning.
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