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单词 slit trench
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Definition of slit trench in English:

slit trench

noun
  • A narrow trench for a soldier or a small group of soldiers and their equipment.

    狭长掩壕

    Example sentencesExamples
    • At times we slept in slit trenches and air raid shelters.
    • Barbed wire was going up everywhere, slit trenches were dug in case of a bombing, the place was a beehive of activity.
    • I was having tea with Colonel Ottway in the middle of a battle - this happens - and he and I were sitting under his slit trench at his headquarters, under a fir tree.
    • They adopted their stand-to positions in slit trenches and machine gun pits.
    • For mile after mile they go on, slit trenches, ditches, earthen underground bunkers, palm groves of heavy artillery and truck loads of combat troops in battle fatigues and steel helmets.
    • There were no slit trenches or overhead shelter, and the support areas were located in central, and conspicuous, buildings such as Hangar 172 that still showed damage from the Japanese raids of 1942.
    • Ron dived into a slit trench, followed by a Brigadier who yelled to his batman to fetch his whisky.
    • Deep slit trenches appeared on airfields, with fuel and ammunition stored in tunnels.
    • ‘Obviously, life in combat was unpleasant,’ Kameny continues, ‘digging our way across Germany, slit trench by slit trench, sleeping in them at night, using our helmets as pillows.’
    • After the war an Army Body Recovery Unit opened the slit trench and took the bodies to the military cemetery.
    • At school, Mitchell Fraser and his classmates practised air raid drill in the slit trenches in the field below the school.
    • As soon as tents were pitched in a new location, slit trenches had to be dug.
    • The evolution of trench lines from a network of individual slit trenches was still envisaged in British, French, and American doctrine.
    • Second, in accordance with current field engineering practices, the troops build on their positions both covered shelters and open shelters (covered slit trenches, niches, splinter-proof shields and so on).
    • I told them about my first night ashore in France on D-Day explaining how I had to dig a slit trench in the cold wet earth and then sleep in it - with no groundsheet or blanket.
    • We were on alert all day and in the slit trenches most of the night.
    • Aged fourteen, I joined our school cadet corps, practised with a Lee-Enfield.303 rifle and a First World War Lewis gun and dug slit trenches in our school playground.
    • And signals master Bob Cameron, grinning boyishly at the camera, who survived an assault of German mortars by jumping into a slit trench with a Toronto war correspondent.
    • The duo worked their way along the slit trenches to the next bunker.
    • We had a nice party for the bride and groom and even the Japanese joined the celebration, in that we had an alert in the middle of the party and we all ran for the slit trenches.

Definition of slit trench in US English:

slit trench

nounˈslit ˌtrenCH
  • A narrow trench for a soldier or a small group of soldiers and their equipment.

    狭长掩壕

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Second, in accordance with current field engineering practices, the troops build on their positions both covered shelters and open shelters (covered slit trenches, niches, splinter-proof shields and so on).
    • They adopted their stand-to positions in slit trenches and machine gun pits.
    • After the war an Army Body Recovery Unit opened the slit trench and took the bodies to the military cemetery.
    • We had a nice party for the bride and groom and even the Japanese joined the celebration, in that we had an alert in the middle of the party and we all ran for the slit trenches.
    • ‘Obviously, life in combat was unpleasant,’ Kameny continues, ‘digging our way across Germany, slit trench by slit trench, sleeping in them at night, using our helmets as pillows.’
    • I was having tea with Colonel Ottway in the middle of a battle - this happens - and he and I were sitting under his slit trench at his headquarters, under a fir tree.
    • We were on alert all day and in the slit trenches most of the night.
    • At times we slept in slit trenches and air raid shelters.
    • There were no slit trenches or overhead shelter, and the support areas were located in central, and conspicuous, buildings such as Hangar 172 that still showed damage from the Japanese raids of 1942.
    • For mile after mile they go on, slit trenches, ditches, earthen underground bunkers, palm groves of heavy artillery and truck loads of combat troops in battle fatigues and steel helmets.
    • Barbed wire was going up everywhere, slit trenches were dug in case of a bombing, the place was a beehive of activity.
    • Ron dived into a slit trench, followed by a Brigadier who yelled to his batman to fetch his whisky.
    • And signals master Bob Cameron, grinning boyishly at the camera, who survived an assault of German mortars by jumping into a slit trench with a Toronto war correspondent.
    • As soon as tents were pitched in a new location, slit trenches had to be dug.
    • The evolution of trench lines from a network of individual slit trenches was still envisaged in British, French, and American doctrine.
    • At school, Mitchell Fraser and his classmates practised air raid drill in the slit trenches in the field below the school.
    • The duo worked their way along the slit trenches to the next bunker.
    • Deep slit trenches appeared on airfields, with fuel and ammunition stored in tunnels.
    • I told them about my first night ashore in France on D-Day explaining how I had to dig a slit trench in the cold wet earth and then sleep in it - with no groundsheet or blanket.
    • Aged fourteen, I joined our school cadet corps, practised with a Lee-Enfield.303 rifle and a First World War Lewis gun and dug slit trenches in our school playground.
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