city under siege

英汉例句

It is the stress of a people living in a city under siege.
这是生活在围城中的人们所承受的压力。
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.
仅存锡安城（城原文作女子），好像葡萄园的草棚，瓜田的茅屋，被围困的城邑。
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，整个城市就像遭到围攻一样，黄色塑料标志、石头和垃圾桶被堆成路障，枪声回响在发生骚乱的街区。

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