单词	earthwork
释义	earthworkearth‧work /ˈɜːθwɜːk $ ˈɜːrθwɜːrk/ noun [countable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A substantial, well-preserved Iron Age settlement with two encircling ramparts and supplementary earthworks. However, considerable earthworks do sometimes exist and these are, of course, well worth recording. It is true we no longer live in the cultures that produced the great temples or stone circles or earthworks. Meantime the Trojan camp, fortified only by earthworks and deprived of its leader and its best warriors, was hard-pressed. Nothing like their earthworks had been seen since the earlier Iron Age of pre-Roman times. Shadow sites are made visible by earthworks or stone walls casting shadows in very low-level sunlight. The defences are a series of trenches with high stone and turf earthworks in between. The first line of earthworks was reached. word sets WORD SETS► Defence bomb shelter, nounearthwork, nounentanglement, nounentrenchment, nounmail, nounmoat, nounrepulse, verbresistance, nounstockade, nounwar game, noun a large long pile of earth, used in the past to stop attacks
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