As the Americans dug into defensive positions around Brooklyn Heights.

美国人则在布鲁克林高地附近摆好防御阵势。

Circling your wagons means you are in a defensive position.

“circle your wagons”意味着你处于一种防御状态。

In response, Ukraine says that its own forces took up defensive positions.

作为回应，乌克兰称其军队发起攻势。

So they fortified Bunker Hill, and set up defensive positions on nearby breeds Hill.

所以他们加强防守邦克山， 设立防御据点在附近的布里德山。

Union troops did not prepare defensive positions. They had no protection when the battle began.

联邦军没有准备防御阵地，战斗开始时他们没有任何保护。

Everyone move to the secondary defensive position!

大家都撤往第二道防线！

And this ranged from being financially independent to taking defensive positions in times of physical assault.

这包括从经济独立到在遭受人身攻击时采取防御措施。

Government media say the Syrian army responded with, quote, precise strikes that targeted rocket launchers and defensive positions of the armed rebels there.

政府媒体说，叙利亚军队回应说，精确打击目标是火箭发射装置和武装叛军的防御阵地。

The AMTI says Vietnam expanded the island here by more than 50 percent, adding defensive positions, gun emplacements and trenches.

AMTI 称， 越南将这里的岛屿扩大了 50% 以上，增加了防御阵地、炮台和战壕。

The headline is saying that Russia is 'on the back foot', and that's an expression that means 'at a disadvantage' or 'in a defensive position'.

标题说俄罗斯“处于不利境地”，这个短语的意思是“处于劣势”或“处于防御地位”。

Paul glanced at Halleck, took in the defensive positions of his guards, looked at the banker until the man lowered the water flagon.

保罗瞥了哈勒克一眼，看着他的卫兵的防御位置，看着银行家，直到那个人放下水壶。

General Hooker did not plan to make the same mistake which General Burnside made at Fredericksburg. Burnside had thrown his army against Lee's defensive positions six times.

胡克将军并不打算犯和伯恩赛德将军在弗雷德里克斯堡犯的同样的错误，伯恩赛德曾六次向李将军的防御阵地发起进攻。

The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington, D.C. policy organization, said Russia has " a greater and clearer interest in flooding the lower Dnieper despite the damage to their own prepared defensive positions."

华盛顿特区的政策机构战争研究所表示，俄罗斯“在淹没第聂伯河下游方面有更大、更明确的兴趣，尽管这会破坏他们自己准备好的防御阵地”。

However, this defensive position did not keep her from  getting damaged by a torpedo in December 1943. While Yamato did see some  action during WW2, thankfully, she was never used to her full capabilities.

然而，这种防御位置并没有阻止她在 1943 年 12 月被鱼雷损坏。虽然大和号在二战期间确实经历过一些行动，但值得庆幸的是，她从未充分发挥自己的能力。

The Confederates had moved up through Tennessee into the border state of Kentucky. They built forts and other defensive positions across the southern part of the state. They also blocked as many railroads and rivers as they could.

联盟国已经通过田纳西州进入边界肯塔基州，他们在该州南部建立了堡垒和其他防御阵地。他们还封锁了尽可能多的铁路和河流。

They broke  their shield wall to chase the retreating invaders; once they broke the wall, the Normans  turned back and resumed the battle, leaving the Anglo-Saxons in a much weaker defensive  position that eventually led to their surrender.

他们打破盾墙追击撤退的入侵者；一旦他们打破了城墙，诺曼人就转身重新开始战斗，使盎格鲁撒克逊人处于更弱的防御地位，最终导致他们投降。