picket
picket 英 [ˈpɪkɪt] 美 [ˈpɪkɪt]
n. 警戒哨；纠察队；[建] 尖木桩 vt. 派……担任纠察；用尖桩围住 vi. 担任纠察
进行时:picketing 过去式:picketed 过去分词:picketted 第三人称单数:pickets 名词复数:pickets
- A picket is a vertical wooden board in a fence. You might have a white picket fence enclosing your whole front yard, so your little dog can't escape.
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- n. 警戒哨；纠察队；[建] 尖木桩
- vt. 派……担任纠察；用尖桩围住
- vi. 担任纠察
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1. Britain has hidden away its social problems for decades, corralled them with a brutal picket of armed men.
英国几十年来都对其社会问题秘而不宣，用残暴的武装纠察队掩盖问题。
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2. I suppose I was being a scab for the first and only time in my life, but the union didn’t have a picket line outside the museum and, besides, politics was the last thing on my mind.
我想这是我一生中第一次也是唯一一次做了罢工破坏者，但是工会在博物馆的外面没有纠察队，再说，我当时根本就没想到政治。
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3. You can use materials like door panels, a trellis or picket fencing as backdrops, too.
你可以用一些诸如门板，格板的材料，或者是用小桩做成围栏当背景。
- picket (n.) 1680s, "pointed stake (for defense against cavalry, etc.)," from French piquet "pointed stake," from piquer "to pierce" (see pike (n.2)). Sense of "troops posted to watch for enemy" first recorded 1761; that of "striking workers stationed to prevent others from entering a factory" is from 1867. Picket line is 1856 in the military sense, 1945 of labor strikes.
- picket (v.) 1745, "to enclose with pickets," from picket (n.). The sense in labor strikes, protests, etc., is attested from 1867. Related: Picketed; picketing.
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