squadron

英 ['skwɒdrən] 美 ['skwɑdrən]

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※ 提供单词"squadron"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

squadron 中队，大队

来自意大利语 squadrone,大队，中队，来自 squadra,营，队伍，词源同 square,方阵，-one,大词后缀。

squadron: squadron: [16] A squadron is etymologically a ‘square’. The current sense ‘military group’ comes from an earlier ‘square formation of troops’. The word was borrowed from Italian squadrone, a derivative of squadra ‘square’, which comes from the same source as English square. The related squad [17] comes from French escouade, an alteration of escadre, which was acquired from Italian squadra.
=> quarter, square
squadron (n.): 1560s, from Italian squadrone, augmentative of squadra "battalion," literally "square" (see squad). As a division of a fleet, from 1580s, of an air force, 1912.

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1. They saw a squadron of fifteen motorcycle policemen driving in V-formation.: 他们看见15名警察骑着摩托车排成V字形前行。

2. He was posted to Hong Kong as second-in-command of C Squadron.: 他被派遣到香港任C中队的副队长。

4. Both of the dead men were identified as from No 15 squadron.: 两名死者都被认出是15中队的.

5. In the first ten days of May our squadron accounted for at least seven enemy aircraft.: 5月的头10天里我们中队至少报销了7架敌机。