a line of objects placed across a road, etc. to stop people from getting past 路障;街垒 The police stormed the barricades the demonstrators had put up. 警察冲破了示威者筑起的街垒。 a barricade made of doors, chairs and broken tables 由门、椅子和破桌子组成的路障
Extra ExamplesStudents built a barricade against the police. 学生搭起路障对抗警察。 The army used tanks to storm the barricades. 军队使用坦克冲击路障。 The protesters formed a human barricade. 抗议者筑成了一道人墙。 The two sides watched each other over the barricades. 双方隔着路障互相监视。 There were six miners manning the barricades. 有6名地雷工兵守着防御工事。 They constructed a barricade across the main road. 他们在主干道上筑起了路障。 They built a barricade of wooden benches. 他们用木制长凳搭建了一个路障。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- human
- police
- makeshift
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- build
- construct
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- behind a/the barricade
- over a/the barricade
- barricade across
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Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French, from barrique ‘cask’, from Spanish barrica; related to barrel (barrels often being used to build barricades).