| 释义 |
‖ embusqué|ɑ̃byske|
[subst. use of pa. pple. of F. embusquer to ambush.]
One who avoids military service (as by securing a post in a government office or the Civil Service). Also attrib. and transf.
1916J. Buchan Greenmantle i. 4 Not some embusqué business in an office, but a thing compared to which your fight at Loos was a Sunday-school picnic. 1920Blackw. Mag. May 586/2 These particular embusqués, who made Egypt a byword during the War. 1925R. Graves Welchman's Hose 51 Brave fellows, no embusqués in that class. 1926Spectator 7 Aug. 207/2 The best scenes are those between the poor embusqué and his wife. 1932‘A. Bridge’ Peking Picnic v. 51 Perhaps the real use of the presence of Europeans in Peking was to afford shelter to embusqués Chinese. 1955Times 21 May 9/4 A number of idle and ill-disposed embusqués, whose principal aim in life is to blight their husbands' military career. |