沒有在打仗的人
兩個意思共用同一個畫面,分別只在這個人站在制服裡面還是外面。
noun · C1
Someone who is in the army, navy or air force during a war but whose job is not the fighting itself, such as a doctor, a nurse, a chaplain or a supply driver.
非戰鬥人員
Picture a war with two groups of people in it: the ones doing the fighting, and everyone else. Non-combatant can be used for a person in that second group. The word names someone by the one thing they are not doing. What separates the two meanings is only where that person stands: inside the uniform, or outside it altogether.
The word is built from non- plus combatant, 'a person who fights', so it names a person by switching off one activity.
這個字由 non-(不)加 combatant(作戰的人)組成,字面就是「把作戰關掉的那一個人」。兩個意思都是從這個字面長出來的。
Wiktionary entry for non-combatant, supplied in this packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:2464743847): 'From non- + combatant.'
One branch
沒有在打仗的人
兩個意思共用同一個畫面,分別只在這個人站在制服裡面還是外面。
noun · C1
Someone who is in the army, navy or air force during a war but whose job is not the fighting itself, such as a doctor, a nurse, a chaplain or a supply driver.
非戰鬥人員