- [uncountable]
a place where people live temporarily in tents or temporary buildings 营地 Let's return to camp. 咱们回营地吧。 🔊🔊 to pitch/set up camp (= put up tents) 搭起/搭建营地 to break/strike camp (= take down tents) 破坏/罢工营地
Extra ExamplesWe broke camp early the next morning. 我们第二天一早就拔营了。 We pitched camp just outside the woods. 我们就在树林外扎营。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- makeshift
- temporary
- day
- …
- establish
- make
- pitch
- …
- be located
- fire
- site
- at (a/the) camp
- (also summer camp)[countable, uncountable] (especially in North America)
a place where children go in the summer and take part in sports and other activities 度假营 a tennis/soccer camp 网球场 I used to attend a summer music camp for five weeks. 我曾经参加一个夏季音乐训练营,为期五个星期。 - at camp
He spent two weeks at camp this summer. 他今年夏天在度假营玩了两个星期。 🔊🔊 a camp counsellor (= somebody who works with young people at a summer camp) 营地顾问
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- makeshift
- temporary
- day
- …
- establish
- make
- pitch
- …
- be located
- fire
- site
- at (a/the) camp
see also day camp, fat camp - [countable]
(used in compounds )用于构成复合词 a place where people are kept in temporary buildings or tents, especially by a government and often for long periods (尤指政府让人长时间住宿的)营房,营帐 They criticized the appalling conditions in the refugee camps. 他们批评难民营的恶劣条件。 a detention/an internment camp 拘留所/拘留所 They were repeatedly beaten by camp guards. 他们一再被营地警卫殴打。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- concentration
- detention
- internment
- …
- be sent to
- enter
- liberate
- …
- inmate
- guard
- survivor
- …
- in a/the camp
- [countable, uncountable]
a place where soldiers live while they are training or fighting 兵营 an army camp 军营
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- makeshift
- temporary
- day
- …
- establish
- make
- pitch
- …
- be located
- fire
- site
- at (a/the) camp
- [countable]
a group of people who have the same ideas about something and oppose people with other ideas 阵营(指观点相同且与持不同观点者对立的集团) the socialist camp 社会主义阵营 We were in opposing camps. 我们属于彼此对立的阵营。 🔊🔊 The region split into two armed camps. 这个地区分裂成为两个武装集团。 People are split into two camps on this issue. 在这个问题上,人们分为两个阵营。 He was a politician who switched camps when it suited him. 他是一个政治家,在适合他时改了营地。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- hostile
- opposing
- rival
- …
- divide into
- split into
- in a/the camp
- have a foot in both camps
- [countable]
one of the sides in a competition and the people connected with it 阵营(比赛的一方及其支持者) Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- hostile
- opposing
- rival
- …
- divide into
- split into
- in a/the camp
- have a foot in both camps
in tents帐篷
holiday/vacation度假
prison, etc.拘留营等
army军队
group of people群体
Word Originnoun early 16th cent.: from French camp, champ, from Italian campo, from Latin campus ‘level ground’, specifically applied to the Campus Martius in Rome, used for games, athletic practice, and military drill.
Idioms
have/keep a foot in both camps
to be involved in or connected with two different groups, especially ones that oppose each other 脚踩两只船