英语词汇“to join the colours”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. In plural. By metonymy: a regiment; (later also more generally) the armed forces of a country. In later use usually as retained in set expressions, as to desert one's colours, to join the colours, service with the colours, etc., where sense 20a is often understood, without metonymy. Cf. to call (a person) to the colours at Phrases 14, colour service n. at Compounds 4.

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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > regiment

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1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 2/6 Colours..is by them so fondlie & ignorantly given, as if they..should (in stead of Ensignes) be asked how manie Colours of footmen there were in the Armie.

1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia i. xix. 110 Or else to repayre to his Colours.

1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. x. 190 The Enemy..marched with fiue and twentie Colours towards the Towne.

1646 J. Vicars Gods Ark in Jehovah-jireh iii. 46 Being 74 Colours of horse, and 21 Colours of Dragooneers, in all 95 Colours.

1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 148 I..was run from my Colours.

1760 J. Almon New Mil. Dict. at Aghrim His troops are even said to have sworn on the sacrament not to desert their colours.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 297 A soldier..deserting his colours.

1875 Times 1 Sept. 3/1 The Reservists of 1867..are to join the colours in a few days for a month's drill.

1898 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 153/1 We should as a broad principle adopt a ten years' service with the colours, followed by two years' service in the reserve.

1903 M. J. Byrne tr. P. Bear Ireland under Elizabeth iii. v. x. 127 Athlone with 36 colours of infantry, and three of cavalry, reached Boyle.

1969 W. H. Auden City without Walls 76 Unless you flock to join the colours, It can't go on: so, join up then!

2004 B. Pullan & M. Abendstern Hist. Univ. Manch., 1973–90 v. 106 They supported the British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland Campaign by distributing leaflets addressed to troops serving with the colours.

单词	to join the colours
释义	> as lemmas to join the colours b. In plural. By metonymy: a regiment; (later also more generally) the armed forces of a country. In later use usually as retained in set expressions, as to desert one's colours, to join the colours, service with the colours, etc., where sense 20a is often understood, without metonymy. Cf. to call (a person) to the colours at Phrases 14, colour service n. at Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > regiment regiment1569 colours1590 regt1735 1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 2/6 Colours..is by them so fondlie & ignorantly given, as if they..should (in stead of Ensignes) be asked how manie Colours of footmen there were in the Armie. 1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia i. xix. 110 Or else to repayre to his Colours. 1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. x. 190 The Enemy..marched with fiue and twentie Colours towards the Towne. 1646 J. Vicars Gods Ark in Jehovah-jireh iii. 46 Being 74 Colours of horse, and 21 Colours of Dragooneers, in all 95 Colours. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 148 I..was run from my Colours. 1760 J. Almon New Mil. Dict. at Aghrim His troops are even said to have sworn on the sacrament not to desert their colours. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 297 A soldier..deserting his colours. 1875 Times 1 Sept. 3/1 The Reservists of 1867..are to join the colours in a few days for a month's drill. 1898 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 153/1 We should as a broad principle adopt a ten years' service with the colours, followed by two years' service in the reserve. 1903 M. J. Byrne tr. P. Bear Ireland under Elizabeth iii. v. x. 127 Athlone with 36 colours of infantry, and three of cavalry, reached Boyle. 1969 W. H. Auden City without Walls 76 Unless you flock to join the colours, It can't go on: so, join up then! 2004 B. Pullan & M. Abendstern Hist. Univ. Manch., 1973–90 v. 106 They supported the British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland Campaign by distributing leaflets addressed to troops serving with the colours. extracted from colourcolorn.¹ < as lemmas
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