- 1
To demobilize troops is to send them home, especially at the end of a war. The government demobilizes the army when the fighting stops and it wants those people back in ordinary life. It is the opposite of mobilize, which is to call people up and get the army ready to move. The word is formal and a little stiff; in casual British English, people often say instead. Again: you demobilize people; you a place. Mixing those two is the usual slip, and it is an easy one because they look so alike.
使復員;遣散(軍人)
組成From de- (undo) + mobilize (call up and move an army).
同家族的字
- mobilizethe opposite: to gather and send out an army
- demobilizationthe noun
- demobthe short British form
原始詞典資料2 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。
demobilizeverb/diːˈməʊbɪlaɪz/
- 1
To release someone from military duty, especially after a war.
- 2
To disband troops, or remove them from a war footing.
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。