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A draftee is a person the state has called into the army, navy, or air force — they did not join as a volunteer. In American English that call-up is the draft; the person who has to go is the draftee. You hear it most about the United States in the twentieth century, especially the Vietnam years. British English more often says conscript for the same idea. Though actually, after a country ends the draft, the word does not disappear: people still use it when they talk about those years, or about other countries that still call people up. It is not a rank, and it is not a job by choice. A career soldier is not a draftee. The -ee ending marks the person the action happens to: someone is drafted, so they become a draftee.
役男、被徵召入伍的人(相對志願役)
組成From draft + -ee.
同家族的字
- draftthe American noun/verb this is built on: to draft someone is to call them up
原始詞典資料1 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。
drafteenoun/dɹæfˈti/
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One who is drafted (into a military service, etc).
- During a televised interview on Wednesday, Shoigu said Russia would be targeting 300,000 draftees, mainly those with recent military experience.
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。