city under siege

常见例句

It is the stress of a people living in a city under siege.
這是生活在圍城中的人們所承受的壓力。
The Daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a city under siege.
僅存錫安城（城原文作女子），好像葡萄園的草棚，瓜田的茅屋，被圍睏的城邑。
But on Fridays Homs feels like a city under siege. Yellow plastic signs, rocks and dustbins are set up as roadblocks. Gunshots echo around the streets of restless neighbourhoods.
但是一到周五，整個城市就像遭到圍攻一樣，黃色塑料標志、石頭和垃圾桶被堆成路障，槍聲廻響在發生騷亂的街區。

It is, say the publishers, being bought by people (particularly women) who are more interested in the day-to-day life of a city under siege than the movement of tanks.
ECONOMIST: Battle of Stalingrad
He breached the Assyrian siege by digging his famous water tunnel under the city.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Jerusalem, the Eternal Front Line