| 单词 | duckboard |
| 例句 | The singers in this production are often walking across duckboards, like the ones in the trenches of Flanders. William Kentridge Brings ‘Wozzeck’ Into the Trenches 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z I learned that a tarn is a pond, a gill is a stream, and duckboards are slats across boggy ground. So, you’re hiking across rural Britain? Walking the walk is the easy part. 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z It meant three-quarters of a mile along an uphill road, heavily shelled; then there was a mile over the shell-hole country, where there were no landmarks or duckboards, or anything to guide you. The Secret Battle 2011-02-06T03:00:59.983Z Once in the village of Beaumont, we followed the winding duckboards and were led by small signs painted on wood to the colonel's headquarters. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" She stepped once off the "duckboards" laid down in the middle of the passway and dipped half-way to her knee in the mire. Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier For four miles the path lay along a single duckboard track, capsized or slanting in many places, and the newly-made Nab Road, to which it led, was hardly better. The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry He put on his great-coat and we walked along the duckboards on to the road. Combed Out Something happened to the duckboards an we was wadin in mud to our knees. "Same old Bill, eh Mable!" "Harrison," I said anxiously after a determined struggle, "were you standing on the duckboards?" Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 28, 1917 Before the candle had been put out Ruth had seen him pick up two gas-masks, and he carried these as they stumbled along the duckboards toward the next cross trench. Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier Shell-holes and trenches everywhere filled with water till choice of movement was confined to a few duckboard tracks. The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Our load was very heavy and we had to feel our way slowly along the duckboards. Combed Out At night I would lie awake thinking of it, and many a toss I took into shell-holes and many a time I stepped off the duckboards, because my eyes were on a different landscape. Mr. Standfast The people who write poems about the divine frenzy of going over the top are usually those who dipped their pens a long, long way from the slimy duckboards of the trenches. The Haunted Bookshop He had a gallant look along the duckboards... Now It Can Be Told At some 'posts' there was nothing better to sit on than the muddy 'fire-step' or at best half a duckboard or an old bomb box. The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry The men raced along the duckboards or splashed through the mud in a frantic attempt to get served first, pulling their mess-tins and plates out of their haversacks as they ran. Combed Out He cast a long look at the reddening, lengthening landscape, and dropped down on the duckboard. One of Ours I could not see the duckboard in the dense gloom. Combed Out I could now just distinguish the duckboards and I quickly reached my tent. Combed Out The duckboards came to an end although the ablution benches were another seventy or eighty yards away. Combed Out The queue stretched along the duckboards and in between the tents like a dingy snake in the gathering gloom. Combed Out Our Commanding Officer was a keen sportsman and he had stopped the laying of duckboards so that all energy could be devoted to the construction of a boxing-ring. Combed Out At nightfall the windows of the theatre were screened with blankets and no lights were allowed to show in the wards or on the duckboards. Combed Out I stamped on the duckboard and kicked the sides of the trench and jerked my rifle up and down just to keep myself awake. Combed Out When the first'n drops I lays down flat on the duckboards and one bursts just aside o' me an' smothers me with earth. Combed Out I pawed the mud with my right in order to find the duckboard. Combed Out This fellow was still lying on the ground by the duckboards, trembling all over and paralysed with fear. Combed Out The mortuary attendant came walking along the duckboards. Combed Out The duckboards were lit up by rows of hurricane lamps. Combed Out |
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