| 释义 |
lance corporal  nounA rank of non-commissioned officer in the British army, above private and below corporal.He fought in the Tet Offensive in 1968 as a lance corporal with the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines....- Her mother married a dashing Jack-the-lad, who had been a lance corporal in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the war.
- George Solomou is a lance corporal in the Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to the London Irish Rifles.
Origin Late 18th century: on the analogy of obsolete lancepesade, the lowest grade of non-commissioned officer, based on Italian lancia spezzata 'broken lance'. |