【每日一词】redoubt - n. （军）棱堡，多面堡；堡垒；防御性障碍物

　　Definition: n.

　 1a: a small usually temporary enclosed defensive work

　1b: a defended position : protective barrier

　　2: a secure retreat : STRONGHOLD

　　短语

　　Lost Valley Redoubt: 失落山谷堡垒；山谷碉堡

　　Red Eagle Redoubt: 红鹰据点

　　Redoubt Area: 堡垒区

　　Deepwood Redoubt: 穿过深木堡垒；深木据点

　　pious redoubt: 虔诚壁垒

　　Synonyms

　　bastion，castle，citadel，fastness，fort，fortification，fortress，hold，stronghold

　　Examples of redoubt in a Sentence

　　The refugees gathered in a hilly redoubt several miles outside the city.

　　a massive stone redoubt at the entrance of the bay guarded the city

　　California is a stronghold of liberalism, but the Central Valley, where the scent of manure rims the highways and cattle ranchers tend winter grass, is a redoubt of conservatism.

　　—Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024

　　The collapse had been particularly swift in the priest’s own Brazil — the church’s strongest redoubt by measure of Catholic adherents.

　　—Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024

　　Gaza’s southernmost city sits astride the frontier with Egypt and is, according to Israeli officials, Hamas’ last redoubt after more than four months of devastating conflict that followed the militant organization’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

　　—Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Feb. 2024