| 单词 | marine officer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmarine officer marine officer n. [compare French officier de la marine, officier de marine (1694)] (a) an officer of the Royal Marines; (b) = sense A. 2d. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [noun] > emptiness > an empty container > bottle marine officer1785 marine1806 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Marine Officer, an empty bottle, (sea wit) marine officers being held useless by the seamen. 1829 G. Jones Sketches Naval Life I. 44 We have two marine officers: their birth [read berth] is nearly a sinecure. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Marine Officer, an officer of the Royal Marines. Jocularly and witlessly applied to an empty bottle. 1938 Foreign Service Feb. 45/1 A marine officer and a detachment of sea soldiers landed. 1995 Jrnl. Mil. Hist. 59 28 Marine officers served as military advisers to Army militia and volunteer units. < as lemmas |
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