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

• 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。
• 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。
• Japan on Thursday deployed helicopters, water cannon and military fire trucks on Thursday in a bid to cool radioactive fuel at an earthquake-hit nuclear power plant, as high radiation levels prevented engineers from approaching critically damaged areas.
  周四，日本出动了直升机、喷水车和军用消防车，力图冷却在地震中受损的福岛核电站的放射性燃料棒，高剂量辐射使工程技术人员无法接近受损区域。
• 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。
• He feinted on the way to draw off the Moorish army, flung his troops round the city, cut off its water supply and bombarded it with huge cannon and balls of flaming pitch.
  他一路佯攻击退摩尔军队，同时迅速派部队包围该城，切断供水，用大炮和燃烧的沥青球进行轰炸。
• But riot police armed with tear gas and water cannon stopped them.
  但因防暴警察动用了催泪弹和水枪而未果。
• 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。
• Police responded with tear gas, pepper spray and water cannon.
  警方发放催泪弹、胡椒喷雾和水炮。
• The option of adopting a more aggressive continental approach with the use of curfews, water cannon and even rubber bullets has for now been rejected.
  采取宵禁，水炮甚至橡胶子弹等更积极的方法的选择已经被拒绝。
• The Experimental Study of the Firing Property of the Pulsed Water Cannon
  脉冲水炮发射特性的实验研究