炮火 | pào huǒ | artillery barrage / gunfire | |
扫射 | sǎo shè | to rake with machine gunfire / to strafe / to machine-gun down | |
连珠炮 | lián zhū pào | barrage of gunfire (often used as a metaphor for rapid speech) | |
梭子 | suō zi | shuttle (textile) / cartridge clip / classifier for bullet clips and bursts of gunfire | |
炮响 | pào xiǎng | sound of gunfire / fig. news of momentous events |