Subaltern
[sәb'ɒ:ltәn]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Ranked or ranged below; subordinate; inferior; specifically (Mil.), ranking as a junior officer; being below the rank of captain; as, a subaltern officer.
(a.) Asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition.
(n.) A person holding a subordinate position; specifically, a commissioned military officer below the rank of captain.
(n.) A subaltern proposition.
整理:利亚
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Inferior, subordinate.
整理:希欧多尔
解釋/意思:
adj. inferior: subordinate.—n. a subordinate: an officer in the army under the rank of captain: (logic) a specific class as included under a general one or a particular statement as deducible from a universal one.—adjs. Subalter′nant universal as opposed to particular; Subalter′nate succeeding by turns: subordinate.—n. a particular proposition or a species as opposed to a universal proposition or a genus.—n. Subalternā′tion.
校對:谢尔曼
例句/造句/用法:
- Never was wooer of wealthy bride so thoroughly absolved from the subaltern part, so inevitably compelled to assume a paramount character. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But the Subalterns' and Captains' ladies (the Major is unmarried) cabal against her a good deal. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The subalterns receive orders from their chiefs; they are in a good state of discipline; no blow is struck without mature deliberation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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