a line or ring of police officers, soldiers, etc. guarding something or stopping people from entering or leaving a place (由警察、士兵等组成的)警戒线,封锁线 Extra ExamplesTopics Law and justicec2Police officers threw a cordon around his car to protect him. 警察在他汽车周围设置了防卫圈以保护他。 The crowd managed to break through the police cordon. 人群设法冲出了警方的封锁线。 The security forces have formed a cordon around the apartment. 安全部队在公寓周围设置了警戒线。 There is a tight security cordon around the area. 这一地区周围设有严密的安全警戒圈。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- tight
- police
- security
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- form
- throw
- break through
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- prevent something
- cordon around
- cordon round
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting an ornamental braid): from Italian cordone, augmentative of corda, and French cordon, diminutive of corde, both from Latin chorda ‘string, rope’, from Greek khordē ‘gut, string of a musical instrument’.