dragoon

[美國]/drə'guːn/
[英國]/drə'ɡun/
詞頻: 非常高

中文釋義

vt. 強制;以武力迫害;鎮壓
n. 騎兵;龍騎兵
Word Forms
過去式dragooned
第三人稱單數dragoons
複數dragoons
過去分詞dragooned
現在分詞dragooning

例句

the dragoons were stark fellows.

步騎兵都是些身體強壯的小夥子。

she had been dragooned into helping with the housework.

她被迫幫忙做家務。

They dragooned her into working.

他們用武力逼她工作。

We were dragooned into going to the opera.

我們迫不得已看了那場歌劇。

We were dragooned into the football team.

我們迫不得已參加了足球隊。

Synonyms bludgeon, bluster, ||bounce, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, bullyrag, cow, dragoon, hector, ||ruffle, strong-arm, terrorize

陰謀破壞:顛覆::暴力強迫:脅迫(行爲及其目標)

Glanders, the atrocious Captain of Dragoons, when informed of the occurrence by Mrs. Glanders, whistled and made jocular allusions to it at dinner time.

格蘭德太太把這件事告訴了格蘭德上尉,這個沒羞沒臊的龍騎兵軍官卻吹着口哨,在喫飯時拿它當談笑的資料。

Who could have ever expected that a dragoon would drink sixpenny ale, smoke horrid bird's-eye tobacco, and let his wife wear a shabby bonnet?

誰能料到一個龍騎兵會喝六便士一瓶的啤酒,抽蹩腳得可怕的鳥眼牌菸草,會讓他的妻子戴一頂破破爛爛的帽子啊?”

原聲例句

The Zen dragoon, think it'd hurt being hit by a tennis ball being served?

The Zen dragoon,我想被網球擊中會很疼,對嗎?

來源: Connection Magazine

The Colonel appeared in the door a moment afterward with a dragoon revolver in his hand.

片刻之後,上校出現在門口, 手裏拿着一把龍騎兵左輪手槍。

來源: The Short Stories of Mark Twain

The sentence was drawn up beforehand; Montanelli had sent in the desired informal consent; and the judges (Colonel Ferrari, the local major of dragoons, and two officers of the Swiss guards) had little to do.

判決是事先擬定的; Montanelli 已經發送了所需的非正式同意書;法官(法拉利上校、當地龍騎兵少校和兩名瑞士衛隊軍官)無所事事。

來源: The Gadfly (Original Version)

Wayne, in his celebrated campaign on the Miami, received the fire of his enemies in line; and then causing his dragoons to wheel round his flanks, the Indians were driven from their covers before they had time to load.

韋恩在他著名的邁阿密戰役中受到了排成一隊的敵人的炮火。然後讓他的龍騎兵繞過他的側翼,印第安人還沒來得及裝彈就被趕出了掩體。

來源: The Last of the Mohicans (Part Two)

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