英语词汇“dragoon”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

dra·goon

(drə-gn, dră-)

A member of a European military unit trained and armed to fight mounted or on foot.

tr.v. dra·gooned, dra·goon·ing, dra·goons

1. To subjugate or persecute by the imposition of troops.

2. To compel by violent measures or threats; coerce.

[French dragon, from Middle French dragon, mounted infantry soldier armed with a harquebus, from dragon, dragon (such infantry perhaps being so called because an early unit used a dragon as its standard, or because such infantry were thought to “breathe fire”), from Old French; see DRAGON.]

单词	dragoon
释义	dra·goon (drə-gn, dră-) n. A member of a European military unit trained and armed to fight mounted or on foot. tr.v. dra·gooned, dra·goon·ing, dra·goons 1. To subjugate or persecute by the imposition of troops. 2. To compel by violent measures or threats; coerce. [French dragon, from Middle French dragon, mounted infantry soldier armed with a harquebus, from dragon, dragon (such infantry perhaps being so called because an early unit used a dragon as its standard, or because such infantry were thought to “breathe fire”), from Old French; see DRAGON.]
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