| 单词 | barrage balloon |
| 例句 | Southampton’s barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z No barrage balloons or anything, just empty sky like in peacetime. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Through the train window I saw my first barrage balloons. John le Carré’s ‘A Legacy of Spies’: An Excerpt 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z An angry father “puffs up bigger and bigger/ — like a barrage balloon”; an ancient gospel singer owns an “Aerosonic stand-up piano/ whose yellowing keys clashed with her wallpaper.” ‘The Richard Peabody Reader’ 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z A consoling dialogue was anticipated, a chatty report from the shimmering pastures where souls drift like untethered barrage balloons. The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead by Carl Watkins – review 2013-01-12T09:31:00Z Women at work on a London allotment with a barrage balloon in the background, June 1940. A Green and Pleasant Land: How England's Gardeners Fought the Second World War by Ursula Buchan – review 2013-04-06T16:00:01Z Proving it in World War II, he retrained his female staff of clerks to manufacture parachutes, antiaircraft barrage balloons and whatever else the War Office required, setting a pace no established supplier could approach. Peter Moores and His Campaign for Opera in English 2010-08-22T01:53:00Z The couple got engaged and, at their private wedding, paparazzi in helicopters dodged barrage balloons to take pictures. Life of a screen legend 2011-03-23T13:07:55Z On D-Day, the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, an African American unit, became the first barrage balloon battalion to land in France. A Brief History of Spying With Balloons 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z They would carry out a huge range of activities to aid the war effort across the UK and beyond, from providing weather reports and deploying barrage balloons, to repairing aircraft and intercepting codes and ciphers. Biggin Hill: 'Mum was embarrassed about her WW2 medal' 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z They shared memories of a tense, wartime Seattle: Blackouts once a week and large barrage balloons looming above Boeing Field to catch enemy aircraft. Former Seattle classmates — friends for nearly a century — reunite in a pandemic 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Trump was welcomed, instead, by a pathetic statue of him sitting trouserless on a toilet, and a childish Trump-baby shaped barrage balloon, later burst by a woman who is forbidden by law to approach water. Tea with the Trumps – a red leicester nightmare | Stewart Lee 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z Those were barrage balloons, floating aloft and anchored by cables, so that enemy planes had to fly over them, making their bombing more difficult. 75 years ago, an anxious Seattle turned to radio, newspapers to learn about the D-Day invasion 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z In May 1944, he got two days off and married his fiancee, June, a member of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force who helped service barrage balloons. 75 years later, D-Day veteran still feels the pull of duty 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z In the bass and drum I saw barrage balloons sagging over the Corniche, two men clinking martini glasses at the bar of the Cap D’Or, grimacing at the dreadful gin. Read an excerpt from Luna author Ian McDonald’s heartbreaking new time-travel romance 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z In February 1943, seven Army soldiers were hurt when a barrage balloon caught fire. Check out these giant Army balloons that were meant to thwart air raids in Seattle during WWII 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Because they were cheaper than first-line fighter aircraft, the Army assigned the 1st Balloon Squadron to test a high-altitude D2A as part of a pre-World War II study of the applicability of barrage balloons. Fort Sill’s historic balloon hangar gets recognition 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Instead of minarets, wouldn’t barrage balloons look nicer? The City Designed to Keep Drones Out 2013-02-08T18:18:22Z The barrage balloons would become something of an accepted wartime menace for Seattleites. Check out these giant Army balloons that were meant to thwart air raids in Seattle during WWII 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Basically, barrage balloons caused incoming airplanes to fly lower, which put them in closer range to anti-aircraft guns. Fort Sill’s historic balloon hangar gets recognition 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z |
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