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a group of people or a system that protects a way of life or a belief when it seems that it may disappear 堡壘；捍衛者 a bastion of male privilege 大男子主義的堡壘 a bastion of freedom 捍衛自由的堡壘
a place that military forces are defending 堡壘；防禦工事 Singapore was the last bastion of British defences in South-East Asia. 新加坡是英國在東南亞最後的防禦堡壘。
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from French, from Italian bastione, from bastire ‘build’.