- 1艦上糾察長（船上負責治安的軍士）
A master-at-arms is an officer on a ship who does a job like the police. This person keeps order, looks after safety, and deals with anyone who breaks the ship's rules. Arms here means weapons, not the arms on your body. Long ago, this officer looked after the ship's weapons and made sure people behaved. You meet the title mainly in the navy. It is a job title, so it feels formal. In ordinary words, it is the ship's police.
Master-at-arms 是船上的一位軍官，工作有點像警察，負責維持秩序、看管安全，並處理違反船上規定的人。這裡的 arms 指的是武器，不是手臂；很久以前，這位軍官也負責保管船上的武器，並確保大家守規矩。這個職稱主要出現在海軍，因為是職稱，所以聽起來比較正式。用白話來說，它就是「船上的警察」。
組成A compound: master (the officer in charge) + at arms (with weapons). The title names the person who kept the ship's weapons and its order.
原始詞典資料4 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。
master-at-armsnoun
- 1
A warrant officer or chief petty officer responsible for discipline aboard a naval ship.
- Episode 12, The Cyclops Then he was telling us the master at arms comes along with a long cane and he draws out and he flogs the bloody backside off of the poor lad till he yells meila murder.
- 2
A commissioned officer responsible for overseeing all fitness training in subordinate units.
- 3
A petty officer responsible for law enforcement, antiterrorism, force protection, and expeditionary warfare.
- 4
An officer in a fraternal or similar organization charged with maintaining order.
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