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A paratrooper is a soldier trained to jump out of a plane with a parachute and then fight on the ground. The jump is the way in; the job after landing is still a soldier’s job. This is not a weekend or someone who jumps for sport — it is a military role, often in an airborne or special unit. News, history, and war films use the word a lot; it is plain and a little formal, not slang. One person is a paratrooper; the group they belong to is usually called .
傘兵
組成A blend of parachute + trooper (a soldier).
同家族的字
- parachutethe first half of the blend: the cloth that lets you fall slowly
- trooperthe second half: a soldier
- paratroopsthe unit those soldiers fight in together
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。
paratroopernoun/ˈpæɹətɹuːpə/
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A type of soldier who is trained to enter combat zones by parachuting from aircraft.
- Upon receiving intelligence reports about the massing of enemy paratroopers, General Peng Dehuai posted a defence regiment at Yan'an airfield, and requested that Mao leave Yan'an as soon as possible.
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。