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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
Collins English-English Dictionary
- siege [siːʤ]
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1.
n
the offensive operations carried out to capture a fortified place by surrounding it, severing its communications and supply lines, and deploying weapons against it
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2.
n
(as modifier)
- siege warfare
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3.
n
a persistent attempt to gain something
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4.
n
a long tedious period, as of illness, etc
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5.
n
[obsolete]
a seat or throne
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6.
vt.
[tr]
to besiege or assail
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7.
vt.
[Etymology]
C13: from Old French sege a seat, from Vulgar Latin s
e dica re (unattested) to sit down, from Latin sede re
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1.
n
the offensive operations carried out to capture a fortified place by surrounding it, severing its communications and supply lines, and deploying weapons against it
Examples
- to raise a siege
- 解围 → raise
- a siege of illness
- 疾病长期缠身 → siege
- A siege is a battle of attrition.
- 围城是一场消耗战。 → attrition
- The castle's staunch defenders kept the siege at bay.
- 城堡坚定的守卫者们抵御了敌人的围攻。
- to lift a siege
- 解围 → siege
- to be under siege
- 被围困 → siege
- to lay siege to
- [police, soldiers+] 围攻 → siege
- to raise a siege → raise
- siege warfare → siege
- 乘隙突围
- an opportunity to break through the encirclement (or siege) → 乘隙
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