| 释义 |
picket/ˈpikit/ n. & v.●n. 1 a person or group of people outside a place of work, intending to persuade esp. workers not to enter during a strike etc. (罢工等期间劝阻工人上班的)纠察队队员；纠察队 2 a pointed stake or peg driven into the ground to form a fence or palisade, to tether a horse, etc. (钉入地下作为拴牲口、篱栅等用的)尖木桩，尖板条 3 (also 亦作 picquet, piquet) Mil. 【军】a a small body of troops or a single soldier sent out to watch for the enemy, held in readiness, etc. 警戒队，警戒哨 b a party of sentries 步哨，哨兵 c an outpost 前哨 d a camp guard on police duty in a garrison town etc. 警卫 ●v. (picketed, picketing) 1a tr. & intr. station or act as a picket (派…)担任警戒哨 b tr. beset or guard (a factory, workers, etc.) with a picket or pickets 设置纠察队护卫(工厂、工人等) 2 tr. secure with stakes 用尖木桩护围 3 tr. tether (an animal) 拴住(牲口) □ picketer n.[French piquet ‘pointed stake’ via piquer ‘prick’, from pic PICK2] |