Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has announced that the Netherlands has agreed to send Kiev one of its missile defense systems.
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A single Patriot batterycomprises a power unit, a command station, a radar unit and antennae, as well as up to eight truck-mounted launchers, each holding four surface-to-air missiles.
那么到底是“system”还是“battery”呢?
来,祭出英语学习的法宝之一——Merriam Webster英文词典:
Definition of BATTERY这个单词的释义里有这样一条:
2 [Middle French batterie, from battre to beat] military
a : a grouping of artillery pieces for tactical (see TACTICAL sense 1a(1)) purposes
a battery of cannon from the Revolutionary War