block house

基本解釋

Before an hour's out, I'll stove in your old block-house like a rum puncheon.
不出一個(gè)鐘頭，我就要把你們的老木屋像郎姆酒桶似地鑿穿。
THE red glare of the torch, lighting up the interior of the block-house, showed me the worst of my apprehensions realised.
火把的紅光照亮了木屋的內(nèi)部，我所料想的最壞的局面呈現(xiàn)出來(lái)。
American soldiers spent seven years patrolling the urban neighborhoods of Iraq; its troops battled insurgents there block-by-block and house-by-house.
美國(guó)大兵在伊拉克的街頭巷尾巡邏了整整7年，挨家挨戶(hù)的與叛軍對(duì)抗。

The Lovings were free to go home and live together, in a new cinder-block house Richard built himself.
ECONOMIST: Mildred Loving, law-changer, died on May 2nd, aged 68
In contravention of the planning regulations, many of its gardens have been filled with breeze-block sheds to house the latest arrivals.
ECONOMIST: Bagehot: Scourge of slums The

(formerly) a wooden fortification with ports or loopholes for defensive fire, observation, etc