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单词 bastion
释义 bas·tion
\ˈbaschən also -stēən sometimes -styən or schēən\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle French, from bastille fortress — more at bastille
1. : a projecting part of a fortification
 < the old fort with a bastion at each of its five corners >
2. : a fortified area or position
 < planes disrupted surface communications and bombed island bastions >
3. : something that is considered a stronghold : bulwark, safeguard
 < one of the main bastions of order in a world so badly in need of them — D.W.Brogan >
 < responsible for weakening the final and greatest bastion of civil liberty — R.K.Carr >
4. : a pronounced salient of rock projecting from the wall of a glaciated valley and most commonly formed where a tributary joins a trunk glacier
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