veteran
veteran 英 [ˈvetərən] 美 [ˈvɛtərən]
n. 老兵；老手；富有经验的人；老运动员 adj. 经验丰富的；老兵的
名词复数:veterans
- Veteran commonly refers to someone who has fought in a war––think Veterans' Day, the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial––but, in fact, the word can mean anyone with experience in a particular field.
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- n. 老兵；老手；富有经验的人；老运动员
- adj. 经验丰富的；老兵的
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1. On the way to the meeting, I asked a veteran campaigner how many people we needed to avoid embarrassment.
在路上，我问一个组织竞选活动的老手，需要有多少人到场我们才不会显得难堪？
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2. "I am a Vietnam veteran myself, " he said.
他说：“我本人是一名越战老兵。
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3. Polish veteran Augustyn Karolewski, who still lives in Scotland, added: "He was like a big dog -- no-one was scared of him.
仍居住在苏格兰的波兰老兵奥古斯汀•卡洛勒维斯基说：“他就像一只大狗——大家都不怕他。”
- veteran (n.) c. 1500, "old experienced soldier," from French vétéran, from Latin veteranus "old, aged, that has been long in use," especially of soldiers; as a plural noun, "old soldiers," from vetus (genitive veteris) "old, aged, advanced in years; of a former time," as a plural noun, vetores, "men of old, forefathers," from PIE *wet-es-, from root *wet- (2) "year" (source also of Sanskrit vatsa- "year," Greek etos "year," Hittite witish "year," Old Church Slavonic vetuchu "old," Old Lithuanian vetušas "old, aged;" and compare wether). Latin vetus also is the ultimate source of Italian vecchio, French vieux, Spanish viejo. General sense of "one who has seen long service in any office or position" is attested from 1590s. The adjective first recorded 1610s.
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