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In the United States, a first-year student at a military college such as West Point or Annapolis. Older students still use it as a reminder that you are at the bottom: you take orders, you learn the rules, you have not earned rank yet. It is in-group language — and people around those schools say it; most other English speakers do not. Though actually the word is cousin to the old name for Rome's common people, today's meaning is this school rank, not 'poor person' and not the British insult pleb.
軍校一年級新生
組成From Latin plēbs, 'the common people', probably through Middle French plebe. English later also treated it as a short form of plebeian. Same family as Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese plebe.
原始詞典資料4 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。
plebenoun/plib/
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historicalA plebeian, a member of the lower class of Roman citizens.
- Another the like was among the Romanes of Patricij & plebes, thone ſtriuing with thother a long time, the patricij many yeares excluding the plebes from bearing rule, vntill at laſt all magiſtrates were made cõmon [common] betweene thẽ [them]: […]
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obsoletehistoricalThe plebs, the plebeian class.
- All other roomes were free for the plebe or multitude.
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obsoleteThe similar lower class of any area.
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slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsA freshman cadet at a military academy.
- My drill master, a young stripling, told me I was not so ‘gross’ as most other pleibs, the name of all new cadets.
- "But is a plebe forbidden to stroll here?" "If a plebe did have the brass to try it," replied Anstey slowly, "I reckon he would have to fight the whole yearling class in turn."
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。