cadet
英 [k?'det]
美[k?'d?t]
- n. 幼子，次子；實習生；候補軍官；陸海軍官學校的學員
- n. （法）卡代（人名）；（英）卡德特（人名）
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詞態變化
復數:?cadets;
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cadet ：諧音：“可逮他”=軍校學生
中文詞源
cadet 警官學員
來自詞根cap, 頭。字母p脫落，插入字母d. 即小頭領，未來的領導者。
英文詞源
- cadet
- cadet: [17] Etymologically, a cadet is a ‘little head’. Its original meaning in English was ‘younger son or brother’, and it came from French cadet, an alteration of a Gascon dialect term capdet ‘chief’. This in turn derived from Vulgar Latin *capitellus ‘little head’, a diminutive form of Latin caput ‘head’ (from which English also gets captain and chief).
The reason for its apparently rather strange change in meaning from ‘chief’ to ‘younger son’ seems to be that the younger sons of Gascon families were in former times sent to the French court to fulfil the role of officers. When English borrowed French cadet, it did so not only in a form that retained the original spelling, but also as caddie or cadee, which originally meant ‘young officer’.
The Scottish version, caddie, gradually developed in meaning over the centuries through ‘person who runs errands’ to, in the 19th century, ‘golfer’s assistant’. Cad, originally ‘unskilled assistant’ [18], is an abbreviation of caddie or cadee.
=> captain, chief - cadet (n.)
- c. 1610, "younger son or brother," from French cadet "military student officer," noun use of adjective, "younger" (15c.), from Gascon capdet "captain, chief, youth of a noble family," from Late Latin capitellum, literally "little chief," hence, "inferior head of a family," diminutive of Latin caput "head" (see capitulum). "The eldest son being regarded as the first head of the family, the second son the cadet, or little head" [Kitchin].
Apparently younger sons from Gascon noble families were sent to French court to serve as officers, which gave the word its military meaning. In English, the meaning "gentleman entering the military as a profession" is from 1650s, and that of "student at a military college" is from 1775.
雙語例句
- 1. Nicholas is a new cadet.
- 尼古拉斯是海軍學校的一名新學員.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. At that time every cadet had to be'smuggled " in.
- 每個學員都得“潛越 ” 入境.
來自辭典例句
- 3. He is a West Point cadet now.
- 他現在是西點軍校的學生了.
來自辭典例句
- 4. He works as a cadet teacher.
- 他在當見習教師.
來自辭典例句
- 5. Is that part of the training here, Cadet, smelling body parts?
- 那是這兒訓練的一部分嗎, 學員, 聞尸體的部位?
來自電影對白