scorched earth

短语

焦土

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释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Land that has been abandoned, in the face of an advancing enemy, after the destruction of all resources on it.

    焦土

    不可数 政治 军事
  2. 2.

    The strategy of destroying all resources in an area of land in order to deny their use to an advancing enemy.

    不可数 政治 军事
adj.
  1. 1.

    Alternative spelling of scorched-earth.

词源

Calque from Chinese 焦土 (jiāotǔ, “scorched earth; ravages of war”), originally in reference to the strategy adopted by the Chinese government in the Second Sino-Japanese War. First attested in 1937 as an idiom.

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