cudgels

英 [ˈkʌdʒlz] 美 [ˈkʌdʒlz]

n.  (用作武器的)短棒，粗短棍
cudgel的复数

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  1. (用作武器的)粗短棍，短棒
    A cudgel is a thick, short stick that is used as a weapon.
    1. PHRASE 替…说话；支持;保卫
      If you take up the cudgels for someone or something, you speak or fight in support of them.
      1. The trade unions took up the cudgels for the 367 staff made redundant.
        工会极力支持被裁的367名员工。
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    双语例句

    1. The trade unions took up the cudgels for the 367 staff made redundant.
      工会极力支持被裁的367名员工。
    2. His spirit of being ready to take up the cudgels for a just cause is commendable.
      他那种见义勇为的精神是难能可贵的。
    3. Self-regulation having comprehensively failed, it is to be celebrated that the US justice department has now taken up the cudgels.
      由于自我监管已全面失效，美国司法部现在举起了大棒，值得庆祝。
    4. Reason governs the wise man a cudgels the fool.
      理智指导聪明人，而且打击愚蠢汉。
    5. A squad of policemen, sword in hand, and agents armed with bludgeons and cudgels, rushed in at Javert's summons.
      一个排的持剑的宪兵和拿着大头捧、短棍的警察，听到沙威喊，一齐涌进来了。
    6. She was getting very little support for her charity until we took u the cudgels on her behalf.
      她的慈善事业在我们给予极力支持以前，几乎得不到什么援助。
    7. The weapons used in that mayhem and subsequent clashes were largely confined to hatchets, sticks, cudgels, knives, needles, toothpicks and pins.
      在那场暴力和随后的冲突中使用的武器主要限于短柄斧、棒子、短棍、刀、针、牙签和大头针。
    8. Rob was the first to take up the cudgels for his friend.
      罗布第一个出来为他的朋友辩护。
    9. In 2004 the parliamentary ombudsman took up the cudgels and after four years a period lengthened by Treasury delaying tactics she reported last July on "a decade of regulatory failure".
      2004年，这位议会巡视官开始调查，四年后财政部拖延策略延长了调查期她在去年7月就“监管失灵的十年”作了报告。
    10. Brown took up the cudgels on his behalf.
      布朗为他进行了辩护。
    11. The Union took up the cudgels for the suspended workers.
      工会努力维护失业工人的权益。
    12. Mutatawwi'a are religious troops who inspired by their faith have volunteered to fight. Untrained, reckless and fanatical, these troops are poorly equipped with hand weapons such as cudgels.
      穆塔达维亚棍兵被信仰所激励，自愿入伍参战，虽然未经训练，但充满无畏蛮勇和宗教狂热。
    13. On Protection of the People Who Take up the Cudgels for a Just Cause and Reflection on the Legislation for These Actions
      对见义勇为人员的保护及立法思考
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