battlements

英 [ˈbætlmənts]

美 [ˈbætlmənts]

n.  城垛; 雉堞

牛津词典

noun

• 城垛；雉堞
  a low wall around the top of a castle with spaces in it that people inside could shoot through

柯林斯词典

• 城垛；（城堡的）雉堞；有枪眼的防御墙
  Thebattlementsof a castle or fortress consist of a wall built round the top, with gaps through which guns or arrows can be fired.

双语例句

• Currently only found in battlements, gates of all three.
  目前只发现城垛、城门各三处。
• You say some of those battlements are still standing?
  你说有些城墙至今还矗立着？
• It looks as if the wall was meant to end there but as soon as it was finished a second circle of battlements began to rise from the centre.
  看上去好像这道围墙打算就此结束了，但它一完成，第二圈城垛开始从中心升起来。
• He winged his way back toward the walls and settled on the battlements, his Dragon form wavering as he resumed his human shape.
  他飞回到城墙，在城垛上落下，他的龙身随着他转化为人身而在摇摆着。
• One of these is the battlements and defenses of the city of Dis.
  这些的当中是黄泉城市的城垛和防御。
• It was three storeys high, of proportions not vast, though considerable: a gentleman's manor-house, not a nobleman's seat: battlements round the top gave it a picturesque look.
  这是个绅士的住宅，但不是贵族的宅邸。围在楼顶的雉堞增添了些许诗情画意。
• Leaving the homesick Americans at Tangku, I passed through Tientsin to Peiping, entering the crenelated battlements of the Tartar City on the last day of1946.
  离开塘沽那些思乡的美军后，我经天津前往北平，在一九四六年除夕进入城墙上筑有雉堞的北平城。
• A four-square house, with corner turrets and battlements.
  一幢四角有塔楼、墙头有雉堞的四方形宅子。
• And yet so pleasant for walking on the battlements.
  然而，在这城垛上漫步是多么让人愉快。
• ( of a building) having turrets and battlements in the style of a castle.
  （指建筑）有炮塔和城垛的城堡样式。