| 单词 | citizen soldier |
| 释义 | > as lemmascitizen soldier citizen soldier n. a non-professional soldier. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > type of soldier generally > [noun] > unskilled or untrained freshwater soldier?1548 citizen soldier1590 militaster1640 1590 L. Lloyd Consent of Time 358 The gouernment of tyrants, who hauing a gard of thirtie thousand of citizen souldiers to defend them in all tyrannie, made hauocke and spoile. 1769 T. Smollett et al. tr. Voltaire Wks. XVI. 196 The citizen soldier marries, and fights for his wife and children. 1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. ii. viii. 367 The citizen-soldiers of Villa Rica. 1904 Collier's 7 May 7/2 It is a bad day for any people, when they become flag-crazy, when they forget that the only soldier worthy of admiration is the citizen soldier, who fights in defence of the liberties, or the independence of his country, or the rights of manhood. 2006 Church Times 5 May 9/2 We now have a fully professional army, and there is little room for what was once known as the ‘citizen soldier’. < as lemmas |
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