(the Maquis)the French resistance movement during the German occupation (1940–5) 法国抗德运动(1940-1945) ■a member of this movement 抗德游击队员
[mass noun]dense scrub vegetation consisting of hardy evergreen shrubs and small trees, characteristic of coastal regions in the Mediterranean (地中海沿岸)灌木丛林地带
语源
early 19th cent. (in sense 2): from French, brushwood', from Corsican Italian macchia