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单词 garrison
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Definition of garrison in English:

garrison

noun ˈɡarɪs(ə)nˈɡɛrəsən
  • 1A group of troops stationed in a fortress or town to defend it.

    (驻扎在要塞或城镇的)卫戍部队,守备部队

    the entire garrison was mustered on the parade ground
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The scene of heavy fighting during World War I between Ottoman troops and the British garrisons in Aden, it became independent in 1918.
    • The garrisons - native troops commanded by British officers - held out and were relieved after a week of day and night assaults.
    • A small garrison of British troops would remain.
    • The entire garrison would turn out for the Retreat ceremony.
    • On the spur of the moment they decided to capture the Rock which was then badly defended by a small garrison of sixty Spanish soldiers.
    • As a result, large garrisons, powerful artillery batteries, airfields and fortified areas appeared on the extreme northern and southern islands: Kunashir, Shikotan and Iturup.
    • A narrow stretch of water was all that separated the Japanese invaders and the 14,000 British, Indian, and Canadian garrison troops left to defend the Crown Colony.
    • If that was the case, then why didn't she go to the garrison posted in this town?
    • By 0400 hours, the last shots were fired against the garrison and our regiments had withdrawn behind Shiyane Hill.
    • In what towns are the largest garrisons stationed?
    • He only had a small garrison defending London at this time.
    • The delay enabled the Japanese garrison of 19,000 troops to construct the most formidable beach defences, a way through which had to be cleared by underwater demolition teams.
    • For the officers of the tiny garrison stationed at Camp Sheridan, the situation was akin to sitting on a powder keg.
    • Specifically, there is evidence that the garrisons of the forts stationed north of Hadrian's Wall were withdrawn, and that thereafter a permanent Roman military presence north of the Wall did not figure in Roman strategic planning.
    • Key army officers visited army garrisons to convince commanders to join the uprising.
    • The garrison troops manning the regional bases of operation will facilitate local stability, maintain the lines of communication, and provide logistical support.
    • The governor of the garrison was suspected of being a Jacobite traitor; an allegation he vehemently denied.
    • With Hadrian we see the first steps toward a system of frontier garrison troops, permanently stationed, along with a field army that gets moved from one hot spot to another.
    • It has reinforced its garrison of 35,000 troops.
    • The additional garrisons, Filipino troops, and effective use of the Navy all were important to expanding the reach of American military power.
    Synonyms
    armed force, force, military detachment, military unit, unit, platoon, brigade, regiment, squadron, battalion, company, legion, corps
    troops, militia, soldiers
    1. 1.1 The building occupied by a garrison.
      驻地,卫戍大楼
      forces from these garrisons have been used against governments
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Barracks, garrisons, bivouacs and encampments thus far spared came under a blitz of laser-guided bombs first used in the Gulf War.
      • After the conquest, the fort was probably reused as a garrison for Roman troops.
      • As he approaches the British garrison, troops rush out to greet him.
      • It may have originally been a privately owned fishing house, later used as a garrison for troops guarding the city.
      • When you consider we're building 3,000 homes at the garrison, you start to realise it makes very good economical sense.
      • They deliberately point pursuers toward nearby posts and garrisons of other federal troops.
      • Therefore, I chose the second course of action to stay and defend the garrison.
      • Three parts of the building's walls have been unearthed during excavations at the garrison, giving archaeologists enough information to map out the route of the 940-metre circuit.
      • Sensing an impending emergency, he went to his headquarters on Merdeka Square, just beside the Jakarta garrison.
      Synonyms
      fortress, fort, fortification, stronghold, blockhouse, citadel, camp, encampment, cantonment, command post, base, station
      barracks, billet, quarters
      rare casern
verb ˈɡarɪs(ə)nˈɡɛrəsən
[with object]
  • 1Provide (a place) with a group of troops.

    (向某地)派(兵)驻防

    air reconnaissance showed the Germans had not garrisoned the island
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But even if we were to garrison every town and village in the country, we could neither control nor stop this process.
    • Henry agreed to garrison the towns only until 20 May, but told him to commit nothing to paper.
    • It was mainly garrisoned by British troops, who dug more tunnels here to add to the mediaeval ones which already existed there.
    • If he garrisons the cities, how should the attack be made?
    • The island was garrisoned by 22,000 soldiers and fortified with a network of underground bunkers.
    • But the Crusaders were too few to garrison fortresses and hold ground in the great sea of opposition that now confronted them.
    • They were also allowed to garrison eight places and were given special places in all the parlements (known as chambres-mi-parties) where cases arose which involved Protestants.
    • In 1836 the British Legion helped raise the siege of San Sebastián, and regular Royal Marines arrived to garrison a nearby port.
    • The Foreign Office held that garrisoning the islands would be too provocative.
    • The plans included garrisoning every town with weapons and food stocks and decentralizing control to trusted commanders.
    • A more lightly manned and shorter linear barrier could, potentially, release troops to garrison a more extensive territory such as the Lowlands of Scotland by a looser disposition of forts.
    • The soldiers tried there best to garrison the town with what they had and readied themselves for the onslaught.
    • In particular the traditional roles of the British army of garrisoning the empire and fighting in Europe were ceasing to be relevant.
    • He points out that the town was garrisoned by two Basque battalions, and that it was a critical road junction for the twenty-three battalions holding the defensive line east of Bilbao, crucial to their successful retreat.
    • It was this battle that caused the Kavanagh's to be treated so severally and had garrisoned the surrounding area so strongly and eventually led to the building of the chapel at Knockafaw as they could not build in the village.
    • During the war, it was used first to garrison Union troops and then to imprison up to 2,000 Confederate soldiers.
    • There they garrisoned the ancient fortress of Eilean Donan but were scattered by the energetic response of the local Hanoverian commander at the battle of Glen Shiel.
    • During this period the island was strongly garrisoned by regular troops, and the governor was nominated by the Crown.
    • His collaborators were left with no force to rely on but a few hundred French troops garrisoning strong points.
    • But these formations never contained even half the total strength available because many troops garrisoned strategic points or guarded important railroads.
    Synonyms
    defend, guard, protect, preserve, fortify, barricade, shield, secure
    man, occupy, supply with troops
    1. 1.1with object and adverbial of place Station (troops) in a particular place.
      (在特定地点)驻扎(部队)
      French troops were garrisoned at Phillipsburg
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He was 13 when the Civil War broke out, and at 16 joined a regiment garrisoned at Newport Pagnell.
      • However, the Irish did not simply escape paying taxes at the same level as in Britain, for army regiments were garrisoned in Ireland.
      • The regiment, currently based at York Barracks in Munster, Germany, was garrisoned in York in the 1700s.
      • England had garrisoned troops in Dublin, and shortly after Matt was born in 1856, soldiers began returning from the Crimean War.
      • Former members of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment Jack, 85, and 87-year-old Donald were garrisoned in Iceland and struck up a friendship that has lasted a lifetime.
      • Though France was a civilian democracy, military life was pervasive: regiments were garrisoned across the country, and 150 new barracks were built to house them.
      • Sasr personnel talk with locals in Ar Ramadi after the surrender of the forces garrisoned in the area.
      • More than 65,000 Puerto Ricans served in the U.S. armed forces during the war, most of them as soldiers garrisoning U.S. bases in the Caribbean.
      • At the time the regiment was garrisoned in Ceylon we know that at least two Athy men were in the regiment's ranks.
      • The 26th Cavalry was garrisoned at Fort Stotsenburg, adjacent to Clarke Field, 75 miles northeast of Manila.
      • Last month, a brigade with two battalions garrisoned along Haifa Street became the first homegrown unit to take operational responsibility for any combat zone.
      • France garrisons a regiment of the Foreign Legion in Mayotte, as well as a naval detachment.
      Synonyms
      station, post, put on duty, assign, billet, deploy, install
      base, site, place, position, locate, situate

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'safety, means of protection'): from Old French garison, from garir 'defend, provide', of Germanic origin.

Rhymes

caparison, comparison, Harrison

Definition of garrison in US English:

garrison

nounˈɡerəsənˈɡɛrəsən
  • 1The troops stationed in a fortress or town to defend it.

    (驻扎在要塞或城镇的)卫戍部队,守备部队

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It has reinforced its garrison of 35,000 troops.
    • By 0400 hours, the last shots were fired against the garrison and our regiments had withdrawn behind Shiyane Hill.
    • The entire garrison would turn out for the Retreat ceremony.
    • If that was the case, then why didn't she go to the garrison posted in this town?
    • In what towns are the largest garrisons stationed?
    • The additional garrisons, Filipino troops, and effective use of the Navy all were important to expanding the reach of American military power.
    • For the officers of the tiny garrison stationed at Camp Sheridan, the situation was akin to sitting on a powder keg.
    • The scene of heavy fighting during World War I between Ottoman troops and the British garrisons in Aden, it became independent in 1918.
    • A small garrison of British troops would remain.
    • The garrisons - native troops commanded by British officers - held out and were relieved after a week of day and night assaults.
    • As a result, large garrisons, powerful artillery batteries, airfields and fortified areas appeared on the extreme northern and southern islands: Kunashir, Shikotan and Iturup.
    • The garrison troops manning the regional bases of operation will facilitate local stability, maintain the lines of communication, and provide logistical support.
    • With Hadrian we see the first steps toward a system of frontier garrison troops, permanently stationed, along with a field army that gets moved from one hot spot to another.
    • Specifically, there is evidence that the garrisons of the forts stationed north of Hadrian's Wall were withdrawn, and that thereafter a permanent Roman military presence north of the Wall did not figure in Roman strategic planning.
    • The governor of the garrison was suspected of being a Jacobite traitor; an allegation he vehemently denied.
    • Key army officers visited army garrisons to convince commanders to join the uprising.
    • On the spur of the moment they decided to capture the Rock which was then badly defended by a small garrison of sixty Spanish soldiers.
    • The delay enabled the Japanese garrison of 19,000 troops to construct the most formidable beach defences, a way through which had to be cleared by underwater demolition teams.
    • A narrow stretch of water was all that separated the Japanese invaders and the 14,000 British, Indian, and Canadian garrison troops left to defend the Crown Colony.
    • He only had a small garrison defending London at this time.
    Synonyms
    armed force, force, military detachment, military unit, unit, platoon, brigade, regiment, squadron, battalion, company, legion, corps
    1. 1.1 The building occupied by troops stationed in a town to defend it.
      (驻扎在要塞或城镇的)卫戍部队,守备部队
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Three parts of the building's walls have been unearthed during excavations at the garrison, giving archaeologists enough information to map out the route of the 940-metre circuit.
      • As he approaches the British garrison, troops rush out to greet him.
      • Barracks, garrisons, bivouacs and encampments thus far spared came under a blitz of laser-guided bombs first used in the Gulf War.
      • After the conquest, the fort was probably reused as a garrison for Roman troops.
      • They deliberately point pursuers toward nearby posts and garrisons of other federal troops.
      • It may have originally been a privately owned fishing house, later used as a garrison for troops guarding the city.
      • Sensing an impending emergency, he went to his headquarters on Merdeka Square, just beside the Jakarta garrison.
      • Therefore, I chose the second course of action to stay and defend the garrison.
      • When you consider we're building 3,000 homes at the garrison, you start to realise it makes very good economical sense.
      Synonyms
      fortress, fort, fortification, stronghold, blockhouse, citadel, camp, encampment, cantonment, command post, base, station
verbˈɡerəsənˈɡɛrəsən
[with object]
  • 1Provide (a place) with a body of troops.

    (向某地)派(兵)驻防

    troops are garrisoned in the various territories
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He points out that the town was garrisoned by two Basque battalions, and that it was a critical road junction for the twenty-three battalions holding the defensive line east of Bilbao, crucial to their successful retreat.
    • The Foreign Office held that garrisoning the islands would be too provocative.
    • They were also allowed to garrison eight places and were given special places in all the parlements (known as chambres-mi-parties) where cases arose which involved Protestants.
    • It was mainly garrisoned by British troops, who dug more tunnels here to add to the mediaeval ones which already existed there.
    • In 1836 the British Legion helped raise the siege of San Sebastián, and regular Royal Marines arrived to garrison a nearby port.
    • Henry agreed to garrison the towns only until 20 May, but told him to commit nothing to paper.
    • His collaborators were left with no force to rely on but a few hundred French troops garrisoning strong points.
    • But these formations never contained even half the total strength available because many troops garrisoned strategic points or guarded important railroads.
    • The plans included garrisoning every town with weapons and food stocks and decentralizing control to trusted commanders.
    • There they garrisoned the ancient fortress of Eilean Donan but were scattered by the energetic response of the local Hanoverian commander at the battle of Glen Shiel.
    • In particular the traditional roles of the British army of garrisoning the empire and fighting in Europe were ceasing to be relevant.
    • If he garrisons the cities, how should the attack be made?
    • But the Crusaders were too few to garrison fortresses and hold ground in the great sea of opposition that now confronted them.
    • A more lightly manned and shorter linear barrier could, potentially, release troops to garrison a more extensive territory such as the Lowlands of Scotland by a looser disposition of forts.
    • During this period the island was strongly garrisoned by regular troops, and the governor was nominated by the Crown.
    • During the war, it was used first to garrison Union troops and then to imprison up to 2,000 Confederate soldiers.
    • The island was garrisoned by 22,000 soldiers and fortified with a network of underground bunkers.
    • But even if we were to garrison every town and village in the country, we could neither control nor stop this process.
    • It was this battle that caused the Kavanagh's to be treated so severally and had garrisoned the surrounding area so strongly and eventually led to the building of the chapel at Knockafaw as they could not build in the village.
    • The soldiers tried there best to garrison the town with what they had and readied themselves for the onslaught.
    Synonyms
    defend, guard, protect, preserve, fortify, barricade, shield, secure
    1. 1.1 Station (troops) in a particular place.
      (在特定地点)驻扎(部队)
      army regiments were garrisoned in Ireland
      Example sentencesExamples
      • England had garrisoned troops in Dublin, and shortly after Matt was born in 1856, soldiers began returning from the Crimean War.
      • At the time the regiment was garrisoned in Ceylon we know that at least two Athy men were in the regiment's ranks.
      • He was 13 when the Civil War broke out, and at 16 joined a regiment garrisoned at Newport Pagnell.
      • Sasr personnel talk with locals in Ar Ramadi after the surrender of the forces garrisoned in the area.
      • Last month, a brigade with two battalions garrisoned along Haifa Street became the first homegrown unit to take operational responsibility for any combat zone.
      • France garrisons a regiment of the Foreign Legion in Mayotte, as well as a naval detachment.
      • Former members of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment Jack, 85, and 87-year-old Donald were garrisoned in Iceland and struck up a friendship that has lasted a lifetime.
      • More than 65,000 Puerto Ricans served in the U.S. armed forces during the war, most of them as soldiers garrisoning U.S. bases in the Caribbean.
      • The 26th Cavalry was garrisoned at Fort Stotsenburg, adjacent to Clarke Field, 75 miles northeast of Manila.
      • Though France was a civilian democracy, military life was pervasive: regiments were garrisoned across the country, and 150 new barracks were built to house them.
      • However, the Irish did not simply escape paying taxes at the same level as in Britain, for army regiments were garrisoned in Ireland.
      • The regiment, currently based at York Barracks in Munster, Germany, was garrisoned in York in the 1700s.
      Synonyms
      station, post, put on duty, assign, billet, deploy, install

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘safety, means of protection’): from Old French garison, from garir ‘defend, provide’, of Germanic origin.

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