核心畫面

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.

可以想成一場戰爭裡有兩種人:正在開火的那些,和其他所有人。non-combatant 指的就是「其他人」裡的一個。這更多收起可以想成一場戰爭裡有兩種人:正在開火的那些,和其他所有人。non-combatant 指的就是「其他人」裡的一個。這個字是用「他沒有在做的那件事」來稱呼他。兩個意思的差別只有一個:這個人是穿著制服站在軍隊裡,還是根本不在軍隊裡。

From the word’s history

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