blitz

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blitz /blɪts/ noun [countable usually singular]  1  PMa sudden military attack, especially from the air 闪电般的猛烈袭击〔尤指空袭〕；闪电战the Blitz (=the bombing of British cities by German aircraft in 1940 and 1941) 〔1940至1941年间德国对英国城市发动的〕空袭2  informalWORK HARD a period of great effort in order to deal with something quickly and completely 闪电行动blitz on We’ll have to have a blitz on the house before your parents arrive. 我们得行动麻利，在你父母到来之前把屋子打扫干净。3  a big effort to make people notice something or buy something 〔为吸引注意力或吸引人们购买某物的〕大规模行动a media/marketing/advertising etc blitz The campaign was launched with a nationwide publicity blitz. 这次运动以一场声势浩大的全国性的宣传活动开始。 —blitz verb [transitive] News came that Rotterdam had been blitzed. 有消息说鹿特丹遭到了空袭。

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blitz• They've begun an advertising blitz to publicize the movie.• In 1943 he suffered a disaster when the stock of his now famous book was all destroyed in the London blitz.• The overall repair bill for Saturday's blitz on Portadown could reach £15m.• Abandoned air-raid shelters became improvised and treacherous playgrounds for the children of the blitz.• Many evacuees went home during that first winter, but when the blitz began, there was another exodus from London.• The blitz was picked up, and Kirby was wide-open over the middle.the Blitz• The aim was to save animals who bolted during the blitz - it promised to return any lost animal to its owner.• Moore's drawing of Londoners sheltering from the blitz in tube stations are now celebrated.• All the windows in the farmhouse had been shattered, the whole scene resembling something from the Blitz.• Built in 1712-18, the church was flattened in the Blitz, but it has been magnificently repaired.• Old Mosse saved three people from a burning house in the Blitz but was a thieving rat otherwise.• More than half a century has passed since he was brought to Swinbrook to escape the horrors of the blitz.• She was a United States ambassador who had been through the blitz in London.nthe BlitzBlitz, the  nthe time during World War II when German planes dropped many bombs on British cities, especially London Sam had rescued three people from a burning house during the Blitz.From Longman Business Dictionaryblitzblitz /blɪts/ noun [countable usually singular]MARKETING a lot of activity designed to produce a particular resulta blitz of television commercialsa year-long marketing blitz that attracted millions of customers back to its serviceOrigin blitz (1900-2000) blitzkrieg

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blitz /blɪts/ noun [countable usually singular]1. a sudden military attack, especially from the air
    the Blitz (=the bombing of British cities by German aircraft in 1940 and 1941)
2. informal a period of great effort in order to deal with something quickly and completely
    blitz on
    We’ll have to have a blitz on the house before your parents arrive.
3. a big effort to make people notice something or buy something
    a media/marketing/advertising etc blitz
    The campaign was launched with a nationwide publicity blitz.
—blitz verb [transitive]:
    News came that Rotterdam had been blitzed.

Blitz
Blitz, the
the time during World War II when German planes dropped many bombs on British cities, especially London:
    Sam had rescued three people from a burning house during the Blitz.