water cannon

英 [ˈwɔːtə kænən]

美 [ˈwɔːtər kænən]

n.  水炮(警方用以驱散人群)

牛津词典

noun

• 水炮（警方用以驱散人群）
  a machine that produces a powerful flow of water, used by the police to control crowds of people

柯林斯词典

• (警察用于驱散人群的)高压水枪，水炮
  Awater cannonis a machine which shoots out a large, powerful stream of water. It is used by police to break up crowds of people who are protesting or fighting.

英英释义

noun

• a hose (carried on a truck) that fires water under high pressure to disperse crowds (especially crowds of rioters)
  Synonym:watercannon

双语例句

• Police responded with tear gas, pepper spray and water cannon.
  警方发放催泪弹、胡椒喷雾和水炮。
• Police later tried to disperse the protesters with water cannon.
  后来，警方试图用高压水枪驱散抗议者。
• Helicopters dumped tonnes of sea water to try to prevent a meltdown of fuel rods, and media reports said water cannon had now joined in the operation on the ground.
  直升机通过投放数吨的海水试图防止燃料棒的融化，有媒体报道称地面同时有水枪共同参与行动。
• Then I watched as they moved in with water cannon and tear gas.
  后来我看到他们使用水炮和催泪弹进行干预。
• But hundreds of people stage protests in Paris and in other cities and riot police use tear gas and water cannon to disperse the crowds.
  但在巴黎和其他城市数百人举行抗议活动，防暴警察使用催泪弹和救火水炮车驱散人群。
• This paper introduces the high-altitude spray, the high-altitude water cannon and the remote-control fire-fighting cannon respectively in a project example and the merits and defects of the three fire-fighting systems are analyzed.
  结合工程实例，分别介绍了高空喷淋，高空水炮，远控消防炮在该工程的运用情况，分析了这三种消防系统的优缺点。
• A flamethrower or water cannon, however, will cost you extra.
  要是多花点钱还能配备火焰喷射器和水炮。
• Test the altitude of gun 、 firing range and water amount of fire fighting squirt and water cannon.
  试验消防水枪及水炮的射高、射程及水量。
• The police are already authorised to use baton rounds, and we agreed at Cobra that while they are not currently needed, we now have in place contingency plans for water cannon to be available at 24 hours 'notice, he said.
  警方已获得使用橡胶子弹的授权，还有，尽管我们在Cobra会议上同意目前还没有必要，但我们已制定了应急计划，可以在提前24小时通知后使用高压水枪。
• NHK, the Japanese state broadcaster, broadcast footage of Japanese coast guards using water cannon against Taiwanese fishing boats and said Taiwanese patrol boats had responded by spraying water toward the Japanese vessels.
  日本公共广播机构日本广播协会（nhk）播出了海上保安厅巡视船用高压水枪对付台湾渔船的画面，并称，台湾方面的巡逻船也对日方喷水回击。