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A man-at-arms is a soldier — though actually, in history writing it is more special than “any fighter.” In the Middle Ages a man-at-arms was a trained fighting man, often in armour and often on a horse, paid to fight, not a farmer called up for one battle. The phrase is old. You meet it in stories of knights and old wars; today’s army just says soldier. The plural is men-at-arms. Arms here means weapons, not the two limbs on your body.
甲士、武裝士兵(中世紀那種穿盔甲、常騎馬的職業軍人;不是現代口語的「士兵」)。
組成man + at + arms, where arms means weapons.
同家族的字
- armedarms here means weapons, as in armed
- man-of-waronce also meant a fighting man; later a warship too
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。
man-at-armsnoun/ˌmæn‿ət‿ˈɑː(ɹ)mz/
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historicalA heavily-armed mounted member of medieval cavalry.
- But if they offer word or violence, Weele fight fiue hundred men at armes to one, Before we part with our poſſeſſion: […]
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。