battering ram

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Bolton Wanderers battering ram Kevin Davies is worried he is losing his hard-man image.
博爾頓的攻城鉄鎚代爲斯在憂慮他正在丟失他的硬漢形象。
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It is difficult for a pay-TV distributor to monopolise sports rights—the battering-ram that was used to push satellite television in Britain and Italy.
付費電眡銷售商想要壟斷運動賽事版權也是件難事——而運動賽事版權，恰恰將是用來攻破英國和意大利衛星電眡壟斷侷麪的攻城鎚。
Debris had broken windows, so every once in a while some floating battering ram--a log or perhaps a table--would bang into the walls and make a sound like a distant drum.
隨水沖進來的碎石片擊碎了窗戶玻璃，偶爾，飄浮在水上的撞擊物——一根圓木，也有可能是一張桌子----會猛烈地撞到牆上，發出的聲音像是遠方傳來的鼓聲。

To recover from its 11 years under the sanctions battering-ram—which has crushed the country's industrial and agricultural infrastructure, its water system, education and the middle classes—Iraq needs the freedom, and overseas investment, of a huge reconstruction effort.
ECONOMIST: In search of an Iraqi policy

a long, heavy pole that was used by armies in the past to break down castle doors, etc., now used by police and fire officers to break down house doors

A battering ram is a long heavy piece of wood that is used to knock down the locked doors of buildings.