fort

noun

1. 要塞；堡垒；城堡
   a building or buildings built in order to defend an area against attack
2. 兵营；军营；营地
   a place where soldiers live and have their training
   1. Fort Drum
      德拉姆堡

1. 堡垒;要塞;城堡
   A fort is a strong building or a place with a wall or fence around it where soldiers can stay and be safe from the enemy.
2. PHRASE 替人照料;代为负责
   If you hold the fort for someone, or, in American English, if you hold down the fort, you look after things for them while they are somewhere else or are busy doing something else.
   1. His business partner is holding the fort while he is away.
      他不在的时候，其生意伙伴代为负责。

1. Archaeologists have dated the fort to the reign of Emperor Antoninus Pius.
   考古学家判定这个堡垒建于罗马皇帝安东尼·庇护统治时期。
2. He made a firm decision to leave Fort Multry by boat
   他打定主意乘船离开穆尔特里堡。
3. His business partner is holding the fort while he is away.
   他不在的时候，其生意伙伴代为负责。
4. The old Dutch fort with its thick high walls looks virtually impregnable
   古老的荷兰城堡城墙又厚又高，看起来几乎固若金汤。
5. Take the metalled path running between the church and the fort.
   走教堂和城堡之间的碎石小道。
6. I was born in Fort Worth but we moved around a lot and I was reared in east Texas
   我出生在沃思堡，但由于常搬家，所以我是在得克萨斯州的东部长大的。
7. The fort fell into the enemy's hands without a shot being fired.
   一枪未发堡垒就陷落敌手。
8. We started an attack against 〔 on 〕 the fort.
   我们对要塞发动进攻。
9. The cavalry commander predicted that many Sioux would bite the dust if they attacked the fort.
   骑兵指挥官预言，如果苏族人进兵要塞，他们中有很多人会被打死。
10. The fort flanked on a swamp.
    堡垒侧面靠着沼泽地。
11. They directed all the guns against the fort.
    他们把所有的炮都对准那个要塞。
12. The boat anchored off the fort.
    那艘船停在堡垒外面。
13. The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort.
    火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。
14. Our army occupied the enemy's fort.
    我军攻占了敌方要塞。
15. I met some of these patriotic Americans at Fort Campbell.
    我在坎贝尔堡见到了这些爱国的美国志士。
16. Germans who survived evacuated the area, and Captain Anderson led the first Americans inside the fort.
    幸存的德军撤离了，安德森上尉带领第一批美军进入了要塞内部。
17. 1927-The Peace Bridge opens, between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
    1927年的今天，连接纽约伊利堡、安大略和布法罗之间的“和平桥”开通。
18. The fort had been hurriedly deserted.
    这堡垒被仓促地放弃了。
19. The army seized the fort.
    军队占领了这个要塞。
20. Hitler took the Baltic Republics; The army took the fort on the hill.
    希特勒占领了波罗的海共和国；军队占领了这座山的要塞。
21. The soldiers took possessions of the enemy's fort.
    士兵攻占了敌人的堡垒。
22. The fort's defenders repelled the attacking enemy.
    堡垒的守卫者们击退了进攻的敌人。
23. The Romans built a fort at York.
    罗马人在约克郡修了堡垒。
24. This morning I went to the big mosque and fort in Old Delhi.
    今天早上我去了旧德里一座很大的清真寺和一座保垒。
25. He mined the enemy's fort.
    他暗地破坏了敌人的堡垒。
26. The Indians besieged the fort.
    印第安人围困了要塞。
27. I heard it by the fort.
    我在要塞那边听说的。
28. The settlers avenged the burning of the fort by destroying an Indian village.
    移民们摧毁了一个印第安人的村庄以此来对烧毁堡垒实行报复。
29. This fort was once the main defence of the island.
    这座堡垒曾经是这个岛上的要主要防御设施。
30. The military forces managed to recapture the fort.
    军队设法夺回了要塞。

  castle fort fortress【导航词义：城堡】

  castle n. 城堡

〔辨析〕指古代为了防御敌人进攻而修建的庞大而坚固的建筑物。

  fort n. 要塞，堡垒

〔辨析〕指在重要之地修建的建筑物或建筑群，常围有高墙，用于屯兵守卫。

  fortress n. 要塞，堡垒

〔辨析〕指比 fort 大的堡垒，用于防御。

n.

hold the fort

• 代为负责（某事）；代为照看（某人）
  to have the responsibility for sth or care of sb while other people are away or out
  1. Why not have a day off? I'll hold the fort for you.
     干吗不休息一天？我来为你代管。

noun

1. a fortified defensive structure

   Synonym:    fortress

2. a fortified military post where troops are stationed

   Synonym:    garrison

verb

1. station (troops) in a fort

2. enclose by or as if by a fortification

   Synonym:    fortify

3. gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense

   Synonym:    fort up