核心畫面
A veteran is, at root, someone who has piled up many years at one thing — first pictured as the old soldier who has been through many campaigns and seen it all. The image to hold is 'weathered by long service': not new, not green, but seasoned.
veteran 可以想成一個「在同一件事上累積了很多年」的人——最早的畫面比較像那位打過無數場仗、什麼場面都見過的老…更多收起
veteran 可以想成一個「在同一件事上累積了很多年」的人——最早的畫面比較像那位打過無數場仗、什麼場面都見過的老兵。核心畫面比較像「被長年歲月磨過」：不是新人、不是菜鳥，而是久經歷練、老練沉穩的人。From the word’s history
From Latin veteranus 'old, long in service' (especially of soldiers), from vetus 'old, advanced in years' (root sense 'having many years'). Literally 'someone with many years on them'.
來自拉丁文 veteranus（年老的、久經服役的，尤指軍人），源自 vetus（年老、上了年紀）。字面上就是「身上累積了很多年頭的人」，這份「年頭」正是它的核心。
etymonline.com/word/veteran
原始詞典資料11 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。
Veteranname
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A village in Special Area No. 4, eastern Alberta, Canada.
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A place in the United States:
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A place in the United States:
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A place in the United States:
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A rural locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia.
veterannoun/ˈvɛ.tə.ɹən/
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A person with long experience of a particular activity.
- The company's new hires were nervous, but the veterans were self-assured because, as one summarized it, "this isn't our first rodeo."
- Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
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A person with long experience of a particular activity.
- We honor veterans and senior citizens with a ten percent discount.
- For 55-year-old U.S. Army veteran Sae Joon Park, this was the hardest moment of his life. […] Park's story reflects both the challenges of life after combat and the perils that noncitizen veterans face if caught in the legal system — realities made harsher amid the Trump administration's push for record deportations.
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A group, animal, etc. with long experience of a particular activity.
- Their mules were clearly veterans. They seemed to know what to do even better than the teenage farmhand who was driving the team.
- Most of the cars which we call "veterans" today were on view at the Motor Show of 1911.
veteranadj/ˈvɛ.tə.ɹən/
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Having had long experience, practice, or service.
- The insinuating eloquence and delicate flattery of veteran diplomatists and courtiers.
- Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.
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Of or relating to former members of the military armed forces, especially those who served during wartime.
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。