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***、胡椒喷雾和水炮。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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***和救火水炮车驱散人群。
• It's an amphibious vehicle, which has a winch and a water cannon.
  它是一种水路两栖载具，所以配备有绞盘和水炮。
• 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。
• 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 water cannon trucks, brought this week to Moscow to disperse demonstrators, remained inactive.
  一些装有高压水枪的卡车被开到了莫斯科，用于驱散抗议者，到目前为止，这些卡车还没有派上用场。
• 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。
• 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***进行干预。