1
- a large container or compartment for storing fuel煤舱,煤箱; 燃料舱, 燃料箱:
a coal bunker.
煤舱。
2
- a reinforced underground shelter, typically for use in wartime(多指战时使用的)掩体, 地堡。
3
- a hollow filled with sand, used as an obstacle on a golf course(高尔夫球场的)障碍沙坑, 障碍物。
with obj.
1
- fill the fuel containers of (a ship); refuel为(船)补给燃料。
2
be bunkered
Golf (of a player) have one's ball lodged in a bunker【高尔夫】(运动员)把球打入障碍区:he was bunkered at the fifth hole.
他打五号洞时把球击入了障碍区。
2.1
- with obj. hit (the ball) into a bunker击球进障碍区:
he bunkered his second shot.
他第二杆将球打入了障碍区。
2.2
- (of a golf course) have bunkers(高尔夫球场)有障碍沙坑。
2.3
- (一般作be bunkered)Brit. informal bring into difficulties; hinder the progress of〈英, 非正式〉使遇到困难; 阻碍:
the act was bunkered by all the showbiz flannel.
这一举措因演艺界的虚伪吹捧而陷入困境。
3
- with obj. take refuge in a bunker or other shelter躲进掩体(或其他藏身处):
his family had bunkered down inside their home
他们一家人躲藏在自己家里
the former Governor has spent four days bunkered down at Government House.
前总督已经在总督官邸呆了四天没有出来。
词源
mid 16th cent. (originally Scots, denoting a seat or bench): perhaps related to BUNK1.