喜樂美語

From the word’s history

From Middle English armee, from Old French armee, from Medieval Latin armāta 'armed force', from armāre 'to arm'.

經古法文 armee 進入英文，源自中世紀拉丁文 armāta「武裝部隊」。

Wiktionary

You can picture army as a huge body of people organized and trained to fight together on land — not scattered individuals, but one massive, ordered mass moving as a unit. From that picture come two things: the standing land-force a country keeps (its 'army'), and, when you forget the fighting and keep only the 'huge organized crowd' part, any enormous group all pushing the same way.

可以把 army 想成一大群被組織、被訓練起來、在陸地上一起作戰的人——不是零散的個人，而是一整片排好、像一個整體在移動的人海。從這個畫面長出兩件事：一個國家平時養著的陸上部隊（它的「陸軍」），以及——把「作戰」拿掉、只留下「龐大又有組織的人群」這一塊——任何一大群朝同一方向使勁的人。

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

armies

意思相近

militarycrowdarmed forceshosttroopsthrongforcesmultitudeforceswarmlegion

用法接近

navycrowdair forceswarmsoldierhordetroopsmasssoldiersbattalionforce

原始詞典資料12 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

ARMYnoun

  • 1

    slanglifestyleThe fandom of the K-pop boy band BTS.

    • ARMY are clever, too: they urged fans not to buy J-Hope's mixtape Hope World on its release date, having worked out that delaying by a day would result in a higher ranking in the Billboard charts.
    • In this manner, ARMY gives charity in the name of BTS, and BTS responds by returning charity back to society in the name of ARMY.
  • 2

    slanglifestyleAn individual fan of the K-pop boy band BTS.

    • Entering the theater, I expected the room to be filled with ARMYs decked out in their BTS merchandise.
    • It began when an ARMY tweeted something along the lines of: “If there are so many of us everywhere in the world, shouldn't we make a change and help people?”

Armyname

  • 1

    A sports team representing the US Military Academy at West Point.

    • Army has several returning starters this year.
  • 2

    Hexagram 7 of the I Ching (䷆)

armynoun/ˈɑː.mi/

  • 1

    A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations.

    • An army never can be commanded or controlled by civilians.
    • The army was sent in to quell the uprising.
  • 2

    A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations.

    • The army received a bigger share of this year's budget increase than the navy or air force.
  • 3

    A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations.

    • The Fourth Army suffered such losses that its remainders were merged into the Second Army, also deployed on the Western front.
  • 4

    The governmental agency in charge of a state's army.

    • The army opposed the legislature's involvement.
  • 5

    A large group of people working toward the same purpose.

    • It took an army of accountants to uncover the fraud.
    • On sunny days the beaches draw armies of tourists of all kinds.
  • 6

    A large group of animals, especially caterpillars or social insects working toward the same purpose.

    • Our house is being attacked by an army of ants.
  • 7

    Any multitude.

    • There was an army of construction cranes working on building the skyscraper.
  • 8

    The military as a whole.

    • The People's Liberation Army Navy of China.
    • The Yugoslav Army consisted of the War Navy, Ground Forces, and Air Force.

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