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单词 sandbag
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Definition of sandbag in English:

sandbag

nounPlural sandbagsˈsan(d)baɡˈsæn(d)ˌbæɡ
  • A bag filled with sand, typically used for defensive purposes or as ballast in a boat.

    (用以防御或用作船只压舱物的)沙袋

    Example sentencesExamples
    • During the day, Team Cobra dug foxholes, strung wire, and filled sandbags, because site defense is never complete.
    • They returned to downtown Grand Forks to fill sandbags in hopes of thwarting rising flood waters.
    • Volunteers gathered around landmarks and scrambled to fill hundreds of sandbags in a desperate bid to save the city's treasures from the rising waters.
    • All vehicles must be reinforced with sandbags to help absorb the effects of IEDs and other attacks.
    • Soldiers have been using sandbags and Kevlar blankets on the floors of their unprotected HMMWVs to help improve levels of protection.
    • Adding a sense of combat reality to the classroom are sandbags, camouflage netting, and the sounds of exploding ordnance and close air support.
    • They hired local men as translators or to fill sandbags at the camp.
    • The twenty yard stretch was cleared by nightfall, although the sides would be unstable until enough sandbags could be filled and lodged into place to retain the loose mud.
    • ‘All personnel, being base combatant personnel, are trained in how to fill sandbags, how to place them down on the ground into the pits allocated,’ he said.
    • The weight of a combat-loaded infantry squad with over 50 sandbags will deteriorate a M998 quickly.
    • I stood on a street corner one day and I watched 10th Mountain Division troops in trucks with sandbags and plywood, which is pretty much state of the art now as far as defeating a mine strike.
    • At night sentries were doubled, and most men found themselves on carrying parties, going back along communication trenches to bring up barbed wire, sandbags, ammunition, or trench-mortar bombs.
    • One unit brought along stationary bikes that are sitting next to foxholes and sandbags.
    • The platoon tracks could occasionally kick out four sandbags tied together as casualties that the first sergeant could take back to the battalion aid station.
    • Finally, sand mixed with archeological fragments has been used to fill sandbags intended for protecting military positions.
    • Not all vehicles were up-armored before leaving FOB Pacesetter, but the vehicles without armor used sandbags for protection as the brigade moved north.
    • Punters put aside their pints on Monday November 21 to fill and carry sandbags in a valiant effort to keep the outside knee-deep floodwater from entering the Bryansford Road pub.
    • They also trace their history back to the Australian Flying Corp in Palestine, WW1, dropping ammo in sandbags.
    • Along the perimeter, sandbags are being filled and wire is laid.
    • Heavyweights held 20-pound sandbags and lightweights held 15-pound bags.
verbsandbags, sandbagged, sandbaggingˈsan(d)baɡˈsæn(d)ˌbæɡ
[with object]
  • 1usually as adjective sandbaggedBarricade using sandbags.

    用沙袋封堵

    boarded-up shopfronts and sandbagged doorways

    用板封住的店面和用沙袋封堵的门道。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A shallow trench took us to a forward observation post, a sandbagged nest with binoculars and links to the unmanned aerial vehicles circling overhead.
    • These options have been to either send in shirtsleeve forces who must displace and fight from sandbagged 5-ton cargo trucks or send in forces equipped with 68-ton Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles.
    • Sharpshooters were stationed on rooftops, troops levelled guns from sandbagged windows and armoured vehicles rumbled through the streets of Jamaica's capital, Kingston, under the protection of a hovering helicopter gunship.
    • At the Information Ministry, also on the river's west bank, civilians armed with rocket-propelled grenade rifles stood by and a half-dozen soldiers manned sandbagged positions.
    • The device was sandbagged, the area cleared and then the tranquillity shattered briefly as a sympathetic charge disposed of the shell.
    • In the first days of INTERFET a number of sandbagged positions were built on the forward deck of the unarmed ship from which machine gunners watched grimly as the ship travelled close to ‘unknown’ territory when entering Dili Harbour.
    • Volunteers have reinforced dikes along the Elbe River and sandbagged their homes and businesses trying to avoid a deluge.
    • Outside the heavily guarded and sandbagged main gate is a gaggle of small boys, hustling DVDs of The Passion of the Christ and the Baywatch satire, Son of the Beach, to GIs.
    • For each section, terram was laid, sandbags placed to hold it in position, and then the lines of historic palisades and piles were sandbagged.
    • A tough decision must be made with respect to sandbagging the trucks.
    • The councillor said the problem along Highway 52 has been going on for the past four or five years, noting this year alone several houses in the areas have had to be sandbagged.
    • Beside us, a Forward Air Controller uses a powerful periscope to pinpoint enemy targets over the sandbagged rim of the observation post.
    • Marines take cover behind a sandbagged fighting position to lay down a hail of paintball rounds on the opposition.
    • Cultural heritage sites, from medieval castles to irreplaceable works of art, were under threat in the 800-year-old Czech capital Prague and the German city of Dresden, while tourist areas were sealed off and sandbagged.
    • In case anyone starts to think they are camping in the park instead of hunkering down in a war zone, the camp's perimeter is ringed by razor wire and sandbagged foxholes manned by armed guards.
    • Marines fought house-to-house against dozens of well-armed insurgents firing at them from balconies, rooftops and sandbagged bunkers in the border town of Obeidi and surrounding villages.
    • We came upon two sandbagged positions, both deserted.
    • Trenches are being dug, power stations sandbagged and people have started to carry gas masks around with them.
    • Fearing floods, thousands of residents sandbagged their homes.
    • The containers in which the soldiers live and operate could be sandbagged on the exterior to protect the occupants from small arms fire and fragmentation.
  • 2Hit or knock over with or as if with a blow from a sandbag.

    用小沙袋打,用小沙袋击倒;像用小沙袋似的打(或击倒)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Microsoft can, and you can bet, probably will use this procedure to sandbag future litigation: it adds several months to any future case as the respective lawyers set their meters running.
    • The dot-com collapse was dramatic enough, but even the skeptical few who saw that one coming were sandbagged by the sharpness of the overall market decline.
    • And, unlike in many thrillers, the movie doesn't sandbag us with one last, cheap twist at the end.
    • For Daniel's son, history will sandbag him out of a pleasantly drifting existence as he grapples with questions of race and confronts his own colonisation.
    • Adverse customer reaction will quite possibly sandbag this one, but remember to ask yourself if you really need that new SIM right now.
    1. 2.1North American Coerce or bully.
      〈北美〉强制;胁迫,威逼
      he was trying to sandbag me into attempting one of his leg-snapping climbs
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Do you feel in any way, Governor, sandbagged by some other Democrats in the party?
      • He had already announced that he was planning to leave the program to work on a book, but he knew he had been sandbagged, and he didn't like it.
      • This in itself is A-OK, but such countries run the risk of being sandbagged by protectionist tariffs initiated by neighbouring nations.
      • He accused them of sandbagging him by not fully explaining what they intended to do.
      • I think that he was sandbagged a bit by the way they were reported originally.
      • But they sandbagged her, so the last thing she was going to do was take insults from the man who almost ruined her career.
      • I felt sandbagged by the organizers, so after five to ten minutes I left,’ recounted Kay.
  • 3no object Deliberately underperform in a race or competition to gain an unfair advantage.

    (比赛中为捞取不公正的好处)故意表现不佳,故意不发挥真实水平

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Either they sandbagged during qualifying and practice or they gave very high downforce to the cars to make them slower during those sessions.

Derivatives

  • sandbagger

  • noun
    • Now he plays with ‘an eclectic group of thieves, sandbaggers and miscreants’ at public courses like Brookside and Griffith Park.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Of these two, the sandbagger is the more reprehensible, because that player is manipulating the system for personal gain.
      • Kevin, who just two days before was hoisted upon the shoulders of his adoring fellow-competitors, is now, in true Pattaya fashion, being vilified as a sandbagger.
      • It's a step that can be used to root out sandbaggers who inflate scores posted in casual play.
      • His index reads 15, but he says it's closer to 25-spoken like a true sandbagger.

Rhymes

handbag

Definition of sandbag in US English:

sandbag

nounˈsæn(d)ˌbæɡˈsan(d)ˌbaɡ
  • A bag filled with sand, typically used for defensive purposes or for protection from flooding.

    (用以防御或用作船只压舱物的)沙袋

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Heavyweights held 20-pound sandbags and lightweights held 15-pound bags.
    • Punters put aside their pints on Monday November 21 to fill and carry sandbags in a valiant effort to keep the outside knee-deep floodwater from entering the Bryansford Road pub.
    • The twenty yard stretch was cleared by nightfall, although the sides would be unstable until enough sandbags could be filled and lodged into place to retain the loose mud.
    • Finally, sand mixed with archeological fragments has been used to fill sandbags intended for protecting military positions.
    • Volunteers gathered around landmarks and scrambled to fill hundreds of sandbags in a desperate bid to save the city's treasures from the rising waters.
    • At night sentries were doubled, and most men found themselves on carrying parties, going back along communication trenches to bring up barbed wire, sandbags, ammunition, or trench-mortar bombs.
    • During the day, Team Cobra dug foxholes, strung wire, and filled sandbags, because site defense is never complete.
    • I stood on a street corner one day and I watched 10th Mountain Division troops in trucks with sandbags and plywood, which is pretty much state of the art now as far as defeating a mine strike.
    • Not all vehicles were up-armored before leaving FOB Pacesetter, but the vehicles without armor used sandbags for protection as the brigade moved north.
    • They returned to downtown Grand Forks to fill sandbags in hopes of thwarting rising flood waters.
    • Adding a sense of combat reality to the classroom are sandbags, camouflage netting, and the sounds of exploding ordnance and close air support.
    • They hired local men as translators or to fill sandbags at the camp.
    • They also trace their history back to the Australian Flying Corp in Palestine, WW1, dropping ammo in sandbags.
    • Along the perimeter, sandbags are being filled and wire is laid.
    • Soldiers have been using sandbags and Kevlar blankets on the floors of their unprotected HMMWVs to help improve levels of protection.
    • All vehicles must be reinforced with sandbags to help absorb the effects of IEDs and other attacks.
    • The weight of a combat-loaded infantry squad with over 50 sandbags will deteriorate a M998 quickly.
    • ‘All personnel, being base combatant personnel, are trained in how to fill sandbags, how to place them down on the ground into the pits allocated,’ he said.
    • The platoon tracks could occasionally kick out four sandbags tied together as casualties that the first sergeant could take back to the battalion aid station.
    • One unit brought along stationary bikes that are sitting next to foxholes and sandbags.
verbˈsæn(d)ˌbæɡˈsan(d)ˌbaɡ
[with object]
  • 1usually as adjective sandbaggedBarricade using sandbags.

    用沙袋封堵

    boarded-up shopfronts and sandbagged doorways

    用板封住的店面和用沙袋封堵的门道。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In case anyone starts to think they are camping in the park instead of hunkering down in a war zone, the camp's perimeter is ringed by razor wire and sandbagged foxholes manned by armed guards.
    • At the Information Ministry, also on the river's west bank, civilians armed with rocket-propelled grenade rifles stood by and a half-dozen soldiers manned sandbagged positions.
    • Volunteers have reinforced dikes along the Elbe River and sandbagged their homes and businesses trying to avoid a deluge.
    • Marines fought house-to-house against dozens of well-armed insurgents firing at them from balconies, rooftops and sandbagged bunkers in the border town of Obeidi and surrounding villages.
    • Beside us, a Forward Air Controller uses a powerful periscope to pinpoint enemy targets over the sandbagged rim of the observation post.
    • Outside the heavily guarded and sandbagged main gate is a gaggle of small boys, hustling DVDs of The Passion of the Christ and the Baywatch satire, Son of the Beach, to GIs.
    • We came upon two sandbagged positions, both deserted.
    • Cultural heritage sites, from medieval castles to irreplaceable works of art, were under threat in the 800-year-old Czech capital Prague and the German city of Dresden, while tourist areas were sealed off and sandbagged.
    • Fearing floods, thousands of residents sandbagged their homes.
    • Trenches are being dug, power stations sandbagged and people have started to carry gas masks around with them.
    • The councillor said the problem along Highway 52 has been going on for the past four or five years, noting this year alone several houses in the areas have had to be sandbagged.
    • The containers in which the soldiers live and operate could be sandbagged on the exterior to protect the occupants from small arms fire and fragmentation.
    • For each section, terram was laid, sandbags placed to hold it in position, and then the lines of historic palisades and piles were sandbagged.
    • Sharpshooters were stationed on rooftops, troops levelled guns from sandbagged windows and armoured vehicles rumbled through the streets of Jamaica's capital, Kingston, under the protection of a hovering helicopter gunship.
    • Marines take cover behind a sandbagged fighting position to lay down a hail of paintball rounds on the opposition.
    • A tough decision must be made with respect to sandbagging the trucks.
    • These options have been to either send in shirtsleeve forces who must displace and fight from sandbagged 5-ton cargo trucks or send in forces equipped with 68-ton Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles.
    • A shallow trench took us to a forward observation post, a sandbagged nest with binoculars and links to the unmanned aerial vehicles circling overhead.
    • The device was sandbagged, the area cleared and then the tranquillity shattered briefly as a sympathetic charge disposed of the shell.
    • In the first days of INTERFET a number of sandbagged positions were built on the forward deck of the unarmed ship from which machine gunners watched grimly as the ship travelled close to ‘unknown’ territory when entering Dili Harbour.
  • 2Hit or fell with or as if with a blow from a sandbag.

    用小沙袋打,用小沙袋击倒;像用小沙袋似的打(或击倒)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The dot-com collapse was dramatic enough, but even the skeptical few who saw that one coming were sandbagged by the sharpness of the overall market decline.
    • Adverse customer reaction will quite possibly sandbag this one, but remember to ask yourself if you really need that new SIM right now.
    • Microsoft can, and you can bet, probably will use this procedure to sandbag future litigation: it adds several months to any future case as the respective lawyers set their meters running.
    • And, unlike in many thrillers, the movie doesn't sandbag us with one last, cheap twist at the end.
    • For Daniel's son, history will sandbag him out of a pleasantly drifting existence as he grapples with questions of race and confronts his own colonisation.
    1. 2.1North American Coerce or bully.
      〈北美〉强制;胁迫,威逼
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But they sandbagged her, so the last thing she was going to do was take insults from the man who almost ruined her career.
      • I felt sandbagged by the organizers, so after five to ten minutes I left,’ recounted Kay.
      • I think that he was sandbagged a bit by the way they were reported originally.
      • Do you feel in any way, Governor, sandbagged by some other Democrats in the party?
      • He accused them of sandbagging him by not fully explaining what they intended to do.
      • He had already announced that he was planning to leave the program to work on a book, but he knew he had been sandbagged, and he didn't like it.
      • This in itself is A-OK, but such countries run the risk of being sandbagged by protectionist tariffs initiated by neighbouring nations.
  • 3no object Deliberately underperform in a race or competition to gain an unfair advantage.

    (比赛中为捞取不公正的好处)故意表现不佳,故意不发挥真实水平

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Either they sandbagged during qualifying and practice or they gave very high downforce to the cars to make them slower during those sessions.
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