| 释义 |
Mountie colloq.|ˈmaʊntɪ|
Also Mounty.
[f. mounted a. + -ie, -y6.]
1. A member of the Royal Canadian (formerly North West) Mounted Police.
1914Eye Opener (Calgary) 12 Dec. 3/4 Ketchen, the Mountie,..was easily placated. 1924A. J. Small Frozen Gold vi. 139 A sentence that is at once the badge and boast of the Mounted—‘the Mounties never come in without their man’. 1927Sunday at Home 106/2 The Eskimo borrowed the Mounty's gun and shot him. 1971D. Heffron Nice Fire & Some Moonpennies i. 12 We all looked all around us as though there might be a Mountie skulking behind every tree. 1973Saturday Night (Toronto) Feb. 22/1 All I could see was the Mounties' legs.
2. A member of a similar police force outside Canada.
1931Skipper 25 Apr. 112 A detachment of the Camel Corps on the march outside Cairo. These desert ‘mounties’ keep law and order in Egypt. 1953R. Campbell Mamba's Precipice 125, I wonder why such a smart man with a castle in England has to come out here [sc. S. Africa] and work as an ordinary Mountie. |