中文词源
platoon （军队的）排，一群
来自法语peloton,排，一群人，来自古法语pelote,球，词源同pill,pellet.-on,小词后缀。
英语词源
- platoon
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platoon: [17] Platoon means etymologically ‘little ball’. It comes from French peloton, a diminutive form of pelote ‘ball’ (source of English pellet). The notion of a ‘small ball’ was extended in French to a ‘little cluster of people or group of soldiers’ – hence the meaning of English platoon.
=> pellet, pelota - platoon (n.)
- 1630s, from French peloton "platoon, group of people," from Middle French peloton (15c.), literally "little ball," hence, "agglomeration," diminutive of Old French pelote "ball" (see pellet).
- platoon (v.)
- in baseball, "to alternate (a player) with another in the same position," 1967, from platoon (n.), which had been used in team sports since 1941.
权威例句
- 1. He is being guarded by a platoon of police.
- 有一队警察看守着他。
- 2. Platoon sergeants fell their men in on the barrack square.
- 排长们在营房广场上整顿队伍.
- 3. The platoon made its way to the pre - arranged rendezvous in the desert.
- 这个排向事先约定的沙漠中的会合点进发.
- 4. The lieutenant was put in charge of an infantry platoon.
- 中尉被委任指挥一个步兵排.
- 5. Seeing the platoon leader returning, everybody rushed up to meet him.
- 看见排长回来了, 大家赶忙迎上去.