| 单词 | bivouac |
| 释义 | bivouac (once / 2101 pages) nv If you ever draped a blanket over bushes or lawn chairs in the backyard and pretended to bunk down under it when you were a kid, you’ve made a bivouac — a temporary, makeshift camp with little or no cover. Bivouac comes from the eighteenth-century German word biwacht, and originally meant a patrol of ordinary citizens who helped the town’s night watchmen. Nowadays, you’ll most often see it used as a noun, but it can be a verb too––and it's often associated with soldiers, though that’s not essential. You might not want to bivouac at the edge of that cliff when you sleepwalk every night. Make your bivouac in the meadow instead. WORD FAMILYbivouac: bivouaced, bivouacing, bivouacked, bivouacking, bivouacs+/bivouacking: bivouackings USAGE EXAMPLESAli Hussein Fadil called his soldiers to attention in a field about 30 miles east of the city where they had bivouacked. Los Angeles Times(Oct 30, 2016) A U.S. disaster response team of more than 50 people has bivouacked in the atrium of the U.S. Washington Post(Oct 11, 2016) On the other hand, a guerrilla called Antonio squelches his way from the riverbank bivouac to a sodden track through dense, dripping palm leaves. The Guardian(Sep 25, 2016) 1n temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers Syn|Hypo|Hyper camp, cantonment, encampment boot camp camp for training military recruits hutmentan encampment of huts (chiefly military) laager, lagera camp defended by a circular formation of wagons military quarters living quarters for personnel on a military post 2n a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent Syn|Hyper campground, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite, encampment land site, site the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located) 3v live in or as if in a tent Syn|Hyper camp, camp out, encamp, tent dwell, inhabit, live, populate inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of |
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