ADJECTIVE | VERB + CANNON | CANNON + VERB | CANNON + NOUNADJECTIVE➤automatic自動火炮▸➤water高壓水龍◇Riot police used water cannon to disperse the crowd.防暴警察用高壓水龍驅散人群。VERB + CANNON➤load, mount裝炮彈▸➤aim將炮瞄準▸➤fire, shoot開炮;發射炮彈CANNON + VERB➤boom, roar, thunder炮聲隆隆◇Cannons thundered to their right.大炮在他們的右邊轟鳴。➤fire (sth), shoot (sth)大炮射向(⋯)◇As the king stepped ashore the cannons fired a salute.國王登岸時,鳴響禮炮致意。CANNON + NOUN➤ball(usually cannonball) , shell炮彈▸➤blast, fire, shot炮彈爆炸聲;炮火;大炮射擊▸➤crew炮兵▸➤fodder (figurative) 炮灰◇The foot soldiers were just used as cannon fodder (= considered not as people but as material to be used up in war).這些步兵只不過被當作炮灰。