Platoon
[plə'tuːn] or [plə'tun]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a military unit that is a subdivision of a company; usually has a headquarters and two or more squads; usually commanded by a lieutenant.
(noun.) a team of policemen working under the military platoon system.
(noun.) a group of persons who are engaged in a common activity; 'platoons of tourists poured out of the busses'; 'the defensive platoon of the football team'.
編輯:梅尔维尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square.
(n.) Now, in the United States service, half of a company.
霍奇編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a number of recruits assembled for exercise—originally a small body of soldiers in a hollow square to strengthen the angles of a longer formation: a subdivision of a company.
手打:莉莎
例句/造句/用法:
- When she had gone through her rigid preliminaries, amounting to a sort of genteel platoon-exercise, she withdrew. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Oh, boy, I'd like to have you two in my platoon. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- There were stragglers going by long after the regiment had passed--men who could not keep up with their platoons. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
編輯:波西亚