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Dunkirk

英 [dʌn'kə:k] 美
  • 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