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bunker

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Military, Golf, Gas, coal, oil
bun·ker1 /ˈbʌŋkə $ -ər/ noun [countable]  1. PMa strongly built shelter for soldiers, usually underground 掩体,地堡,掩蔽壕2. British EnglishDSG a large hole on a golf course filled with sand 〔高尔夫球场的〕沙坑 SYN American English sand trap4  See picture of 见图 GOLF5 see picture at 见图 golf3. TPGa place where you store coal, especially on a ship or outside a house 〔尤指船上或屋外的〕煤仓
Examples from the Corpus
bunkerThe primary edifice, Mandeville Center, is about as inviting as a concrete bunker.Each bunker guard strained intently at the night shadows before him.Trying to power it out he only succeeded in finding a fairway bunker.From the right-hand group of trees, he went into the front left-hand bunker.Given better fortune, shots that bounced off hillocks and into bunkers might have bounced on to greens.Was it a plan to build a last secure bunker in the Lena Valley if Leningrad and Moscow fell to the blitzkrieg?Then they'd have a use for their bunkers.The grass caught his club-head and he hoicked his ball into one of those bunkers.
bunker2 verb [transitive] British English  to hit a golf ball into a bunker 把〔球〕击入沙坑→ See Verb tableOrigin bunker (1800-1900) Scottish English bunker seat with storage space inside ((18-19 centuries)), perhaps from bank long seat ((13-18 centuries)), from Old French banc; → BANK16
bun·ker1 nounbunker2 verbChineseSyllable
Corpus a underground built for shelter soldiers, strongly usually


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Bunker
Bunker, Archie /ˈɑːtʃi $ ˈɑːr-/
one of the main characters in the humorous US television programme from the 1970s called All in the Family. Archie Bunker is a working-class man who is very proud of being American, always thinks that he is right, and believes that foreign people should not be allowed to live in the US because they will change it too much. People sometimes use ‘Archie Bunker’ as a name for anyone who has similar strong opinions.


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bunker1 /ˈbʌŋkə $ -ər/ noun [countable]
 Date: 1800-1900
 Language: Scottish English
 Origin: bunker 'seat with storage space inside' (18-19 centuries), perhaps from bank 'long seat' (13-18 centuries), from Old French banc; bank1(6)
1. a strongly built shelter for soldiers, usually underground
2. British English a large hole on a golf course filled with sand
   SYN  sand trap American English
3. a place where you store coal, especially on a ship or outside a house

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bunker2 verb [transitive] British English
to hit a golf ball into a bunker


bun·kerBrE /ˈbʌŋkə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈbʌŋkər/ 🔊 nouna strongly built shelter for soldiers or guns, usually underground 地堡;掩体a concrete/underground/secret bunker 混凝土/地下/秘密掩体a container for storing coal, especially on a ship or outside a house 煤舱;煤箱a coal bunker煤箱
(also especially NAmE ˈsand trap, trap) a small area filled with sand on a golf course (高尔夫球场上的)沙坑
bun·kerBrE /ˈbʌŋkə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈbʌŋkər/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they bunker BrE /ˈbʌŋkə(r)/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈbʌŋkər/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it bunkers BrE /ˈbʌŋkəz/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈbʌŋkərz/ 🔊past simple bunkered BrE /ˈbʌŋkəd/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈbʌŋkərd/ 🔊past participle bunkered BrE /ˈbʌŋkəd/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈbʌŋkərd/ 🔊 -ing form bunkering BrE /ˈbʌŋkərɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈbʌŋkərɪŋ/ 🔊be bunkered (in golf 高尔夫球) to have hit your ball into a bunker (and therefore to be in a difficult position) 把球击入了沙坑(因而处境艰难)