stockade
stockade 英 [stɒˈkeɪd] 美 [stɑˈkeɪd]
n. 栅栏；围起的地方 vt. 用栅栏围住；用栅栏防卫
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- A stockade is an enclosed pen used to herd cattle and other livestock. Stockades can also house men, in the sense of a penal camp. In both cases, the treatment tends to be on the rough side.
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- n. 栅栏；围起的地方
- vt. 用栅栏围住；用栅栏防卫
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1. They have reached the Owl Creek bridge, put it in order and built a stockade on the north bank.
他们已经抵达枭河桥，把那座铁路桥整顿得井井有条，在河北岸筑起一排防御栅栏。
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2. In the wasteland outside Sarju’s stockade, two men, squatting a modest 20 yards apart, are chatting companionably as they take their morning purge.
在Sarju家栅栏外的荒地上，两个男人相隔20码蹲下，边大便，边和善地聊天。
- stockade (n.) 1610s, "a barrier of stakes," a nativization of Spanish estacada, from estaca "stake," from a Germanic source cognate with Old English staca, see stake (n.1)). Meaning "military prison" first recorded 1865. As a verb from 1755.
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