| 正面 | 20170.ordnance 英 ['ɔːdnəns]美 ['ɔrdnəns]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1. -ump 表示“有突出感”.2. lump: 肿块，疙瘩.3. plump: 丰满的(漂亮的突出).4. hump: 驼峰.n. 军火；大炮；军械署 例句： 1. An Ordnance Survey grid reference gives the position of a place to within 100 metres.全国地形测量局的地图坐标标示某地的位置精确到100米以內. ordnance 大炮，军需物资来自ordinance的拼写截短形式。词义由命令引申为军事安排，排兵布阵，军事物资供给，后用于指武器，军械，大炮等。词义演变比较munition,artillery. ordnance (n.)"cannon, artillery," 1540s, a clipped form of ordinance (q.v.) which was attested from late 14c. in the sense of "military materials, provisions of war;" a sense now obsolete but which led to those of "engines for discharging missiles" (early 15c.) and "branch of the military concerned with stores and materials" (late 15c.). The shorter word was established in these distinct senses by 17c. Ordnance survey (1833), official survey of Great Britain and Ireland, was undertaken by the government under the direction of the Master-General of the Ordnance (the natural choice, gunners being thoroughly trained in surveying ranges and distances)." |