English Dictionary

enfilade

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌɛnfəlˈeɪd/

動詞

他動詞 比喩的用法

(transitive) To rake (something) with gunfire. / (figuratively, transitive) To be directed toward (something) like enfilading gunfire.

日本語の意味

（他動詞）銃撃を用いて対象に一斉に火力を集中させ、特に横もしくは斜め方向から攻撃する。 / （比喩的に、他動詞）まるで銃撃のように、一方向から力を加える、または圧力をかける。

During the skirmish, the platoon commander ordered the machine-gunners to enfilade the enemy trench.

小競り合いの最中、分隊長は機銃手たちに敵の塹壕を銃撃で薙ぎ払うよう命じた。

意味（1）

(transitive) To rake (something) with gunfire.

A great quantity of artillery was placed upon the eminence, so as to batter and enfilade the left of their intrenchments.

意味（2）

(figuratively, transitive) To be directed toward (something) like enfilading gunfire.

Together they saw the market thicken, and in course of time thin away with the slow decline of the sun towards the upper end of town, its rays taking the street endways and enfilading the long thoroughfare from top to bottom.

意味（3）

(architecture, transitive) To arrange (rooms or other structures) in a row.

[…] the house had been boldly planned with a ball-room, so that, instead of squeezing through a narrow passage to get to it (as at the Chiverses’) one marched solemnly down a vista of enfiladed drawing-rooms (the sea-green, the crimson and the bouton d’or), seeing from afar the many-candled lustres reflected in the polished parquetry […]

enfilades （ present singular third-person ）

enfilading （ participle present ）

enfiladed （ participle past ）

enfiladed （ past ）