battalions

英 [bəˈtæljənz]

美 [bəˈtæljənz]

n.  (军队的)营; (有组织的)队伍
battalion的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 营；军营
  Abattalionis a large group of soldiers that consists of three or more companies.
  1. Anthony was ordered to return to his battalion...
     安东尼受命返回自己的军营。
  2. He joined the second battalion of the Grenadier Guards.
     他加入了英国近卫步兵第一团第二营。
• N-COUNT （尤指有组织、有特定任务、高效的）一大群，一大批
  Abattalion ofpeople is a large group of them, especially a well-organized, efficient group that has a particular task to do.
  1. There were battalions of highly paid publicists to see that such news didn't make the press.
     有一大批拿高薪的公关人员可以确保这样的新闻不会见诸报端。

双语例句

• So if the British wanted a regime change in say Iran it was a matter of a few gun boats and a couple of battalions of troops.
  因此，如果英国希望一个地方的政权发生更迭，比如说伊朗，这不过就是几船的枪和几个营的部队的问题。
• God is always on the side of the strongest battalions.
  上帝总是帮助强者。
• There were battalions of highly paid publicists to see that such news didn't make the press.
  有一大批拿高薪的公关人员可以确保这样的新闻不会见诸报端。
• The highest fatality rate in the Indian army is not in its infantry battalions massed on the border with Pakistan. It is on another front-line, closer to China, among the army's high-altitude road builders.
  印度军队中死亡率最高的，不是集结在印度与巴基斯坦边境的步兵部队，而是更靠近中国那侧前线上的高海拔地区修路部队。
• The force comprised two battalions and a battery.
  这个部队包括两营步兵及一连炮兵。
• The commander poured men it to reinforce the slaughtered battalions. The commander ordered his soldiers to black up for the night attack.
  指挥官投入大量兵员增援被打败的部队。指挥官命令他的士兵脸和手涂黑以进行夜袭。
• Kim Il-sung leading battalions of happy workers to a shining new dawn.
  金日成领导幸福的工人奔向美好的明天。
• The big-character poster can be put to use everywhere except in the salesrooms of stores, rural areas ( districts and townships), primary schools, and the battalions and companies of the armed forces.
  大字报，除商店的门市部、农村（区乡）、小学、军队的营和连队以外，都可以用。
• Two battalions, with draped drums and reversed arms, ten thousand National Guards, with their swords at their sides, escorted the coffin.
  两个营，鼓上蒙着黑纱，倒背着枪，一万国民自卫军，腰上挂着刀，国民自卫军的炮队伴随着棺材。
• Its battalions were thousands of dealing rooms, connected into a global network acting round the clock.
  它的作战单位是数以千计的交易厅，并与日夜不停运转的全球网络相连。