a line or ring of police officers, soldiers, etc. guarding something or stopping people from entering or leaving a place（由警察、士兵等组成的）警戒线，封锁线- Demonstrators broke through the police cordon.示威者冲破了警方的警戒线。🔊🔊
Extra Examples- Police officers threw a cordon around his car to protect him.警察在他汽车周围设置了防卫圈以保护他。
- The crowd managed to break through the police cordon.人群设法冲出了警方的封锁线。
- The security forces have formed a cordon around the apartment.安全部队在公寓周围设置了警戒线。
- There is a tight security cordon around the area.这一地区周围设有严密的安全警戒圈。
Topics Law and justicec2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveverb + cordoncordon + verbpreposition- cordon around
- cordon round
See full entry Word Originlate Middle English (denoting an ornamental braid): from Italian cordone, augmentative of corda, and French cordon, diminutive of corde, both from Latin chorda ‘string, rope’, from Greek khordē ‘gut, string of a musical instrument’.