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/pəˈliːsmən/
A man who is a member of the police. His job is to keep people safe, stop crime, and help people who are in trouble. A woman doing the same job is called a .
男警察
複數 policemen
核心畫面
police + man: a man whose job is police work — keeping people safe, stopping crime, helping people in trouble. The -man ending is doing real work here: it says the person is male. A woman with the same job is a , and when you do not know or do not need to say, English now usually reaches for police officer instead.
可以想成 police（警察這個組織）＋ man（男人）：一個以警務為職業的男性——維持治安、阻止犯罪、幫助有麻煩的…更多收起
可以想成 police（警察這個組織）＋ man（男人）：一個以警務為職業的男性——維持治安、阻止犯罪、幫助有麻煩的人。這裡的 -man 是真的在指性別：同樣工作的女性叫 policewoman。當你不知道對方性別、或根本不需要講性別時，現在的英文通常改用 police officer，這個中性說法在正式場合和新聞裡幾乎已經是預設。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。
policemannoun/pəˈliːsmən/
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governmentlaw-enforcementA police officer, usually a male.
- The policeman who arrests the "Red" does not understand the theories the "Red" is preaching; if he did, his own position as bodyguard of the monied class might seem less pleasant to him.
- Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.
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chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesA glass rod capped at one end with rubber, used in a chemistry laboratory for gravimetric analysis.
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biologyentomologynatural-sciencesAny skipper of the genus Coeliades.
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hobbiesice-hockeylifestyleSynonym of enforcer.
- A team may have a policeman or enforcer.
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。