| 单词 | soft target |
| 释义 | > as lemmassoft target soft target n. a person or thing that is relatively unprotected, vulnerable, or easy to attack; (Military) an unarmoured or lightly armoured target (cf. sense 33a). ΚΠ 1873 Examiner 12 July 711/2 Mr Lecky presents rather a soft target... His style..is scarcely suitable for philosophical debate. 1941 Boston Daily Globe 5 Aug. 2/4 A hornet swarm of T-12s in guerrilla tactics can punish the soft targets of supply trucks which support the armored divisions. 1973 Economist 29 Dec. 17/1 A group of left-wing, libertarian socialists..moved into the Liberal's youth section, which they saw as a soft target ripe for takeover. 1991 Press Assoc. (Nexis) 15 Feb. The fuel-air bomb is a devastating weapon against ‘soft’ targets, like infantry and trucks, though of limited use against tanks and other armour. 2011 L. Pennington-Gray & A. Pizam in Y. Wang & A. Pizam Tourism Destination Marketing & Managem. xix. 318 Tourists can also be a soft target for terrorists. < as lemmas |
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