单词
Dunkirk
英 [dʌn'kə:k]
美
基本信息
- n. 敦刻尔克（法国北部港市）；敦刻尔克式撤退；困难局面
英英释意
- 1. a crisis in which a desperate effort is the only alternative to defeat;
- "the Russians had to pull off a Dunkirk to get out of there"
- 2. a city in northern France on the North Sea where in World War II (1940) 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in a desperate retreat under enemy fire
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