bastion

砦、牙城

信念や暮らし方を強く支持し、守る人や団体、場所。

やさしい英語で： A person, group, or place that strongly supports and protects a belief or way of life.

• The town is a bastion of tradition.
• They see the university as a bastion of free thought.
• These villages remain bastions of the old language.

使い方： a bastion of something (The newspaper became a bastion of independent journalism.)

類義語： stronghold, bulwark

よく使う表現： bastion of democracy, bastion of tradition, last bastion

稜堡

要塞の外壁から突き出た、守りのための部分。

やさしい英語で： A part of a fort’s outer wall that sticks out and helps defend it.

• Soldiers guarded the bastion.
• The castle has four stone bastions.
• Cannons fired from the eastern bastion.

類義語： bulwark

よく使う表現： stone bastion, fortified bastion, castle bastion