| 单词 |
panzer |
| 释义 |
panzer
(ˈpænzə(r), ‖ ˈpantsər)
[G., ‘mail, coat of mail’.]
Used attrib., of or pertaining to a German armoured unit; also in G. form panzerdivision. As n., a panzer unit or a member of such a unit. Also transf. and fig.
1940Economist 20 Apr. 729/1 It is more than silly..to calculate the speed at which Germany's panzerdivisionen could traverse the Hungarian plain. 1940Topeka (Kansas) Daily Capital 24 June 1 b Delegations deploying to stop Willkie's ‘panzer’ wire attacks. 1941Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 19 Mar.–13 May 189 An Imperial division concentrated round Bengazi was left in the air when the German Panzer inrush swept aside the British armoured brigade. 1942R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 5 You were in danger of breaking your leg by falling over a complete panzer division of dachshunds moving from bar to shove ha'penny table on a broad front. 1943E. J. Pratt Coll. Poems (1958) i. 82 And what specific can unmesh The tangle of civilian flesh From the traction of the panzers? 1945Koestler Yogi & Commissar iii. iv. 250 Geniuses are panzer-spearheads. 1949― Promise & Fulfilment ii. iii. 234 Just after Glubb's panzers had begun the shelling of the Jewish quarter. 1962Listener 28 June 1117/1 German Panzer troops arriving in Wales last week. a1963S. Plath Ariel (1965) 55, I have always been scared of you, with your Luftwaffe..your Aryan eye, bright blue Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You. 1965New Statesman 14 May 759/1 They tried to defend the Book of Genesis against Darwin's panzers. 1969G. Macbeth War Quartet 74 Each panzer was a coiled spring, oiled For instant action. 1973R. Lewis Blood Money iii. 30 He served in North Africa during the Second World War in the Panzer Corps. 1975Times 24 June 4/7 Three new brigades have been addd to the West German army... The number of tanks in a Panzer battalion is being reduced. 1976A. White Long Silence ix. 83 A lean panzer major walked from the other half track. |
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