baton是什么意思

双语用例

• They had not waited a moment but had ridden through the crowd and batoned the people.

• They have been batoned and thrust into concentration camps.

• If the police had insisted upon hauling the men down and had batoned them, a not must have ensued.

• I am informed that there is no foundation for the allegation that some of the persons arrested were batoned and kicked by the police in the police station.

• We have had demonstrations, we have had men batoned into submission—hungry men, desperate men—by officers of the law acting in the interests of law and order.

• Is it true that, while a breach of the magistrates' decision did take place, the police ruthlessly batoned the people down without any warning or request to clear the streets?