1(of a military vehicle or ship) covered with a tough metal layer as a defense against attack.

装甲车辆。

1. 1.1 (of troops) equipped with armored vehicles.
   （军队）配备装甲车辆的
   the 2nd Armored Division

   第三装甲师。

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   • The SBCT's structure is basically regimental, closely resembling a separate armored brigade structure.
   • The book tells of the real bond that existed between the tankers and the armored infantry, who supported each other in capturing town after town.
   • The new larger regiment is aimed at being more flexible with one overarching body of troops covering air assault, armoured infantry and light infantry.
   • Furthermore, he believed that in modern warfare there was no place for armored cavalry.
   • The official reason is to enable the armored troops to function as highly mobile infantry.
   • The unit conducting this mission was a standard regimental armored cavalry troop of the early 1990s era.
   • Several armored cavalry regiments (brigade equivalents) could be kept as independent units.
   • Ironically, this included the 11C mortarmen assigned to armored cavalry troops.
   • In the mid-1970s, I served in an armored cavalry regiment positioned in Germany's Fulda Gap.
   • The Thunder Run was a technique first used in Vietnam by American armored cavalry units, although it was usually seen used outside of cities.
   • There, military police operated effectively side by side with infantry and armored troops in peace-enforcing efforts.
   • Europe is no longer threatened by the specter of armored legions racing toward the Fulda Gap.
   • The final phase of the red team-blue team exercise, called North Sword 2005, involves live tests of the firepower of tanks and armored infantry.
   • The Swiss Eagle vehicles designated are mainly deployed as reconnaissance vehicles for the armoured brigades of the Swiss Army.
   • A reinforced Indian armored corps is moving into eastern Kashmir.
   • A dexterous American teenager would have dispatched the entire armored corps of a third-world country in the time that it took me to claim my two victims.
   • Israel would then deploy around 30,000 paratroopers, infantry and armoured brigades.
   • The U.S. army already has two armored brigades operating in Kuwait.
   • The armored corps conducted an internal review in 2001 which concluded that women were unable to physically keep up with men.
   • During the maneuver of the heavy armored cavalry troop, applying combined arms to maximize battlespace is a difficult task at best.
2. 1.2 (of some animals and plants) having a protective layer or shell.
   （某些动物或植物）有保护外层（或甲壳）的
   armored fish

   盾皮鱼。

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   • Instead it relies on a heavily armored exoskeleton and spines that effectively increase its size many times over.
   • For as long as they were there, no crocodile or armored herbivorous or general carnivorous dinosaur could grow very big.
   • Some of the species that terror birds may have preyed on were heavily armored.
   • Benthic armored fish are common by the Early Devonian.
   • During the Late Permian they evolved huge, heavily armored herbivores, the pareiasaurs.
   • And while jawless vertebrates were present in the Cambrian, it was not until the Ordovician that armored fish became common enough to leave a rich fossil record.
   • Although the head and thorax were usually armored with dermal bone, the rest of the body was quite vulnerable, covered with small bony scales or lacking even that.
   • The aetosaurs, or Stagonolepididae, were large herbivorous armoured archosaurs, and an important characteristic part of Late Triassic faunas.
   • The extinct armored fishes known as placoderms make up what is considered to be the earliest branch of the gnathostome family tree - the earliest branch of the jawed fishes.
   • The Galeaspida are a strange group of armored fishes possessing a massive, flattened, one-piece bony shield.
   • The other family with extraordinary bacteriomes is Diaspididae, the armored scale insects.
   • Thyreophora includes the various armored dinosaurs, like Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus.
   • The heavily armored fish from the Devonian became extinct, being replaced with fish fauna that look more modern.
   • Crabs are nocturnal and cautious with an armoured shell and soft, fleshy insides.
   • Remains of ostraderms (jawless, armored fish) from Ordovician rocks comprise some of the oldest vertebrate fossils.
   • These include a few armoured fishes and a unique, whole-bodied ‘shark’ found at Grahamstown.
   • With its armoured shell, thick leathery skin and slow movement, the turtle is one of the most easily recognized creatures on earth.
   • Halkieriids were sluglike metazoans armored with a coat of mineralized sclerites and two prominent shells at either end.
   • The scales are covered with ganoin, a dense shiny substance like enamel, which gives the fish an archaic armoured appearance and makes it rather clumsy.
   • Most mollusks have such tissue, but in this armored species, the gland is about 100 times the size of that found in related species.
3. 1.3historical (of a soldier) wearing armor.
   〈史〉（士兵）戴甲披挂的
   armored and mounted knights

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   • A few moments passed by and all she did was simply stare at the armored soldier.
   • The armored soldiers, bearing their large broadswords, axes and spears, flooded into the cave, making the only exit closed from escape.
   • Attention turned as the front door of the main castle burst open and armored soldiers came rushing down the steps with weapons at the ready.
   • Seven armored soldiers lay dead on the grass, and an eighth was stuck against the wall he just hit.
   • The gold armored soldiers were supposed to be the elite of the Saturian armed forces, with equipment and weapons parallel to that of the Alliance Marines.
   • I have witnessed first hand the impact of an armored knight and horse, colliding with a standing squire.
   • Con Rafale and the armored soldiers of Valkyrie Unit readied their weapons
   • The armored swordsman didn't turn around but responded in turn.
   • The circle of human soldiers parted ahead, and a tall gold-haired human in a dark blue uniform walked through with another armored soldier at his side.
   • The musket also ended the dominance of the armored knights on horseback.
   • A figure stood out in the distance fighting several armored soldiers at once and amazingly he was holding his own.
   • Gareth was jostled so violently that he was knocked to the ground by a fully armored knight who had just been snapped aside by Lancelot.
   • A black armored soldier peered down at the two unmoving bodies.
   • And the warhorses carried heavily armored knights for the armed forces of Europe.
   • A wall of what seemed to be heavily armored soldiers came from behind the hill and stopped just beside Drenick and Demitri.