battering ram

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Bolton Wanderers battering ram Kevin Davies is worried he is losing his hard-man image.
博尔顿的攻城铁锤代为斯在忧虑他正在丢失他的硬汉形象。
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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.
付费电视销售商想要垄断运动赛事版权也是件难事——而运动赛事版权，恰恰将是用来攻破英国和意大利卫星电视垄断局面的攻城锤。
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.
随水冲进来的碎石片击碎了窗户玻璃，偶尔，飘浮在水上的撞击物——一根圆木，也有可能是一张桌子----会猛烈地撞到墙上，发出的声音像是远方传来的鼓声。

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.