camp
noun/kæmp/
/kæmp/
Idioms - [uncountable] a place where people live temporarily in tents or temporary buildings
营地 - Let's return to camp.
咱们回营地吧。 - to pitch/set up camp (= put up tents)
扎营；搭帐篷 - to break/strike camp (= take down tents)
拔营
Extra Examples- We broke camp early the next morning.
我们第二天一早就拔营了。 - We pitched camp just outside the woods.
我们就在树林外扎营。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- makeshift
- temporary
- day
- …
- establish
- make
- pitch
- …
- be located
- fire
- site
- at (a/the) camp
- Let's return to camp.
- (also summer camp)[countable, uncountable] (especially in North America) a place where children go in the summer and take part in sports and other activities
夏令营 - a tennis/soccer camp
网球/足球训练营 - I used to attend a summer music camp for five weeks.
我曾经参加过为期五周的音乐夏令营。 - at camp He spent two weeks at camp this summer.
他今年夏天在夏令营玩了两个星期。 - a camp counsellor (= somebody who works with young people at a summer camp)
夏令营辅导员（= 在夏令营中与年轻人一起工作的人）
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- makeshift
- temporary
- day
- …
- establish
- make
- pitch
- …
- be located
- fire
- site
- at (a/the) camp
see also day camp, fat camp - a tennis/soccer camp
- [countable] (used in compounds) a place where people are kept in temporary buildings or tents, especially by a government and often for long periods
（尤指政府让人长时间住宿的）营房，营帐 - They criticized the appalling conditions in the refugee camps.
他们批评难民营的恶劣条件。 - a detention/an internment camp
拘留营 - They were repeatedly beaten by camp guards.
他们多次遭到集中营看守的殴打。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- concentration
- detention
- internment
- …
- be sent to
- enter
- liberate
- …
- inmate
- guard
- survivor
- …
- in a/the camp
- They criticized the appalling conditions in the refugee camps.
- [countable, uncountable] a place where soldiers live while they are training or fighting
兵营 - an army camp
军营
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- makeshift
- temporary
- day
- …
- establish
- make
- pitch
- …
- be located
- fire
- site
- at (a/the) camp
- an army camp
- [countable] a group of people who have the same ideas about something and oppose people with other ideas
阵营（指观点相同且与持不同观点者对立的集团） - the socialist camp
社会主义阵营 - We were in opposing camps.
我们属于彼此对立的阵营。 - The region split into two armed camps.
这个地区分裂成为两个武装集团。 - People are split into two camps on this issue.
人们在这个问题上分为两个阵营。 - He was a politician who switched camps when it suited him.
他是一位在适合他的时候改变阵营的政治家。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- hostile
- opposing
- rival
- …
- divide into
- split into
- in a/the camp
- have a foot in both camps
- the socialist camp
- [countable] one of the sides in a competition and the people connected with it
阵营（比赛的一方及其支持者） - There was an air of confidence in the England camp.
英格兰队阵营信心十足。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- hostile
- opposing
- rival
- …
- divide into
- split into
- in a/the camp
- have a foot in both camps
- There was an air of confidence in the England camp.
in tents
holiday/vacation
prison, etc.
army
group of people
Word Originnoun early 16th cent.: from French camp, champ, from Italian campo, from Latin campus ‘level ground’, specifically applied to the Campus Martius in Rome, used for games, athletic practice, and military drill.
Idioms
have/keep a foot in both camps
- to be involved in or connected with two different groups, especially ones that oppose each other
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