英语词汇“no man's land”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

no man's land

noun [mass noun]

1Disputed ground between the front lines or trenches of two opposing armies: enemy soldiers facing you across no man’s land...

He was awarded the Military Cross after fearlessly walking into no-man's-land between the opposing troops to comfort wounded and dying soldiers.
Before the end of the war, however, the ineffectiveness of cavalry units in modern warfare had been realised and he was given a new, even more dangerous role - as a scout in no-man's-land.
At 5am on Christmas Day, British and German troops walk across no-man's-land, talking and exchanging souvenirs.

1.1An indeterminate or undefined place or state: the no man’s land between the two parties is where presidential contests are won and lost an unmapped no man’s land between the traditional command economy and the market...

Pet cloning exists in a regulatory no man's land.
Remix collections rarely satisfy fully, usually falling into a no man's land which fans of the original artists have little interest in exploring.
His request was rejected, and he found himself in a bizarre no man's land: exiled from home and barred from entering France.

1.2 [count noun] A piece of unowned land or wasteland: between Riverside Drive and Central Park West was a no man’s land, a zone of welfare tenements...

Beyond the checkpost at Thal, a tiny, fly-blown, windblown nowhere of a village on the edge of Pakistan's tribal areas, is a no-man's-land where the only law is that of the gun and the tribe.
In the late 1990s, for instance, developer Larry Silverstein built an apartment tower on 42nd Street, near the Lincoln Tunnel - previously a residential no-man's-land.
Potsdamer Platz, once a no-man's-land across which concrete barriers and barbed wire stretched, now has a McDonald's and Starbucks.

Origin

Middle English: originally the name of a plot of ground lying outside the north wall of the city of London, the site of a place of execution.

单词	no man's land
释义	no man's land noun [mass noun] 1Disputed ground between the front lines or trenches of two opposing armies: enemy soldiers facing you across no man’s land... He was awarded the Military Cross after fearlessly walking into no-man's-land between the opposing troops to comfort wounded and dying soldiers. Before the end of the war, however, the ineffectiveness of cavalry units in modern warfare had been realised and he was given a new, even more dangerous role - as a scout in no-man's-land. At 5am on Christmas Day, British and German troops walk across no-man's-land, talking and exchanging souvenirs. 1.1An indeterminate or undefined place or state: the no man’s land between the two parties is where presidential contests are won and lost an unmapped no man’s land between the traditional command economy and the market... Pet cloning exists in a regulatory no man's land. Remix collections rarely satisfy fully, usually falling into a no man's land which fans of the original artists have little interest in exploring. His request was rejected, and he found himself in a bizarre no man's land: exiled from home and barred from entering France. 1.2 [count noun] A piece of unowned land or wasteland: between Riverside Drive and Central Park West was a no man’s land, a zone of welfare tenements... Beyond the checkpost at Thal, a tiny, fly-blown, windblown nowhere of a village on the edge of Pakistan's tribal areas, is a no-man's-land where the only law is that of the gun and the tribe. In the late 1990s, for instance, developer Larry Silverstein built an apartment tower on 42nd Street, near the Lincoln Tunnel - previously a residential no-man's-land. Potsdamer Platz, once a no-man's-land across which concrete barriers and barbed wire stretched, now has a McDonald's and Starbucks. Origin Middle English: originally the name of a plot of ground lying outside the north wall of the city of London, the site of a place of execution.
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