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词汇 carpet-bomb
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Definition of carpet-bomb in English:

carpet-bomb

verb
[with object]often as noun carpet-bombing
  • Bomb (an area) intensively.

    地毯式轰炸(某地)

    the indiscriminate carpet-bombing of urban areas
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Short of carpet-bombing the entire country and creating huge civilian casualties, weather conditions will prove inimical to a broadly based ‘search and destroy’ mission.
    • It had been carpet-bombing Verona in February 1944 when it was intercepted by Messerschmitt fighters and hit several times.
    • The results, for those who care to look at them, are simply astonishing, especially by contrast to the level of destruction and the harm to noncombatant lives and property found, say, in carpet-bombing.
    • Near the end of the war, planes started carpet-bombing all of the major Japanese cities, using incendiary bombs.
    • It is blanket-bombing - carpet-bombing - they are planning.
    • Lieutenant General Fritz Bayerlein provides a vivid account of what it was like to endure carpet-bombing.
    • Once a graceful, Caucasus-foothills city of 1 million, it has been heavily shelled and carpet-bombed in two ferocious wars in the past eight years.
    • He charges, finally, that my endorsement of the strategy is a ‘throwback’ to World War II-style carpet-bombing.
    • The bombardment includes the use of fuel-air explosives, cluster bombs, bunker-busting bombs and carpet-bombing.
    • In this day and age people are too intelligent to agree with carpet-bombing a few countries on a whim.
    • Not to mention that the only effective way to attack these targets would be through carpet-bombing with depth charges.
    • This week marked the sixtieth anniversary of some of the most destructive episodes in the World War 2 carpet-bombing of Sofia and other Axis-allied capitals.
    • After a brief and uneasy truce, the war was reprised in 1999 - carpet-bombing, then ground troops, then guerrilla war.

Definition of carpet-bomb in US English:

carpet-bomb

verbˈkärpətˌbämˈkɑrpətˌbɑm
[with object]often as noun carpet-bombing
  • Bomb (an area) intensively.

    地毯式轰炸(某地)

    the indiscriminate carpet-bombing of urban areas
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The bombardment includes the use of fuel-air explosives, cluster bombs, bunker-busting bombs and carpet-bombing.
    • Not to mention that the only effective way to attack these targets would be through carpet-bombing with depth charges.
    • Near the end of the war, planes started carpet-bombing all of the major Japanese cities, using incendiary bombs.
    • Short of carpet-bombing the entire country and creating huge civilian casualties, weather conditions will prove inimical to a broadly based ‘search and destroy’ mission.
    • He charges, finally, that my endorsement of the strategy is a ‘throwback’ to World War II-style carpet-bombing.
    • In this day and age people are too intelligent to agree with carpet-bombing a few countries on a whim.
    • It is blanket-bombing - carpet-bombing - they are planning.
    • It had been carpet-bombing Verona in February 1944 when it was intercepted by Messerschmitt fighters and hit several times.
    • Once a graceful, Caucasus-foothills city of 1 million, it has been heavily shelled and carpet-bombed in two ferocious wars in the past eight years.
    • The results, for those who care to look at them, are simply astonishing, especially by contrast to the level of destruction and the harm to noncombatant lives and property found, say, in carpet-bombing.
    • This week marked the sixtieth anniversary of some of the most destructive episodes in the World War 2 carpet-bombing of Sofia and other Axis-allied capitals.
    • After a brief and uneasy truce, the war was reprised in 1999 - carpet-bombing, then ground troops, then guerrilla war.
    • Lieutenant General Fritz Bayerlein provides a vivid account of what it was like to endure carpet-bombing.
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