汉英词典
MEANING OF 弹尽粮绝
弹尽粮绝
(彈盡糧絕)
out of ammunition and no food left (idiom); in desperate straits
During the battle, the ammunition was used up and the food was cut off / Refers to a dangerous situation where it is impossible to continue fighting
作战中弹药用完了,粮食也断绝了。指无法继续作战的危险处境。
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敌人弹尽粮绝,被迫放弃那座城市。 The enemy yielded up that city when ammunition and food supplies were exhausted. | ||
布里斯说:“美联储基本上已经弹尽粮绝。 The Fed is basically out of bullets. | ||
上一轮互联网泡沫破灭之后,风险投资的资助不断减少,初创公司随后也弹尽粮绝。 When VC funding dried up after the Internet Bubble, startups dried up too. | ||
欧元四面受敌,其中的几个成员国,要么伤痕累累,要么苦苦煎熬,它们已弹尽粮绝,苦无应对之策。 The euro is besieged, several members lie gravely wounded or exposed to heavy fire and the defenders are running out of ammunition. | ||
担任后卫的红五军团和红三军团各一部,被敌人阻于湘江以东,激战至弹尽粮绝后,大部壮烈牺牲。 As the defender of the Red Army Corps and the Red Army of the three, the enemy was blocked in the east of the Xiangjiang River, fighting to the exhaustion of food and clothing, most heroic sacrifice. | ||