| 单词 | firepower |
| 释义 | firepower (faɪəʳpaʊəʳ ) uncountable noun The firepower of an army, ship, tank, or aircraft is the amount of ammunition it can fire. The U.S. also had superior firepower. America has enough firepower in the area to mount sustained air strikes. Collocations: heavy firepower We hit back with heavy firepower and managed to retreat. Times, Sunday Times This enabled heavy firepower to be brought in to support troops in the grid in minutes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The intermediate battery was a method of packing more heavy firepower into the same battleship, principally of use against battleships or at long ranges. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They are usually hostile to every army and pack some heavy firepower. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As such, it can not last long against heavy firepower. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His was generally regarded as the quickest brain in a set of chambers not lacking in intellectual firepower. Times, Sunday Times He had contemporaries who could probably match him in pure intellectual firepower when it came to mathematical and analytic processing. Times, Sunday Times A few of them didn't seem to have the intellectual firepower — or, in a couple of cases, even the intellectual firepower to realise they didn't have the intellectual firepower. Times, Sunday Times Activists concede that while the regime remains intact they cannot compete with the overwhelming firepower deployed on the ground. Times, Sunday Times They never said this would be a cakewalk through a demoralized enemy that would give up at the first sight of overwhelming firepower. Globe and Mail Defence analysts say it brings extra flexibility but not overwhelming firepower, and the rebels say they still believe they can hold out, whatever the cost. Times, Sunday Times He proposed to hold the attack during the day and use overwhelming firepower. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 With our superior firepower, it is not hard to topple regimes; it is the politics we keep getting wrong. Times, Sunday Times (2016) The visitors' superior firepower could swing it. The Sun (2009) Slowly, steadily, superior firepower told. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445 (2007) Translations: Chinese: 火力 Japanese: 火力 |
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