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quartering ['kwɔ:tərɪŋ]

n. 四等分，军营或其他住所的分配;
adj. 从斜后侧方向吹来的;

例句:

  • Their punishments involved embowelling alive, beheading, and quartering.
    来自NEWYORKER
  • The bombers had conducted a 300 - mile search, quartering and requartering the area.
    轰炸机在那地区上空一次又一次地来回执行三百英里搜索.
  • He swam quartering upstream, but still was swept downward rather faster than he had expected.
    他向上游游去, 可是河水老是要把他往下游冲,流速比他想象的要快得多.
  • A: because the British army stayed in their houses ( boarding, quartering ).
    答: 英国军队住在他们的房子里 ( 强行食宿, 霸占空间 ).