infantry
infantry 英 [ˈɪnfəntri] 美 [ˈɪnfəntri]
n. 步兵；步兵团
名词复数:infantries
- Armies usually contain different divisions for different purposes. For example, soldiers on horseback belong to the Cavalry, those who work in communications are in the Signal Corps, and soldiers specially trained to fight on foot are members of the Infantry.
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- n. 步兵；步兵团
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1. He signed on for nine years in the infantry.
他签署了志愿书要在步兵服役九年。
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2. The lieutenant was put in charge of an infantry platoon.
中尉被委任指挥一个步兵排。
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3. The army pinned the enemy to its ground by powerful infantry attacks.
部队以强大的步兵进攻来牵制敌人使其不能离开。
- infantry (n.) 1570s, from French infantrie, infanterie (16c.), from older Italian or Spanish infanteria "foot soldiers, force composed of those too inexperienced or low in rank to be cavalry," a collective noun from infante "foot soldier," originally "a youth," from Latin infantem (see infant). Meaning "infants collectively" is recorded from 1610s. A Middle English (c. 1200) word for "foot-soldiers" was going-folc, literally "going-folk."
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