喜樂美語

核心畫面

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…更多收起可以把 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。

Two branches

一支作戰的陸上部隊

這就是核心畫面本身：一大群受訓在陸地上打仗的人。既可指國家常設的那支「陸軍」，也可指戰時拉出來的某一支軍隊。

an army of soldiers · noun · C2

Many soldiers under one organization, trained to fight on land together.

軍隊／一支軍

一大群人（比喻）

把「作戰」拿掉、只留下「人多、又像列隊般朝同一方向」的那一塊，就用來誇張地形容任何一大群做同一件事的人。

a large group · noun · C2

A very large number of people doing the same thing or sharing the same goal.

一大群

原始詞典資料12 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。