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)
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Protestors threw stones and set fires in retaliation, and the police answered with pepper spray and water cannon
抗议者们以扔石头和纵火作为报复，警方则回之以辣椒雾剂和水枪 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 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。