| 单词 | soldier |
| 释义 | soldier —soldiership, n. /sohl"jeuhr/, n. 1. a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service. 2. an enlisted man or woman, as distinguished from a commissioned officer: the soldiers' mess and the officers' mess. 3. a person of military skill or experience: George Washington was a great soldier. 4. a person who contends or serves in any cause: a soldier of the Lord. 5. Also called button man. Slang. a low-ranking member of a crime organization or syndicate. 6. Entomol. a member of a caste of sexually underdeveloped female ants or termites specialized, as with powerful jaws, to defend the colony from invaders. 7. a brick laid vertically with the narrower long face out. Cf. rowlock (def. 2). 8. Informal. a person who avoids work or pretends to work; loafer; malingerer. v.i. 9. to act or serve as a soldier. 10. Informal. to loaf while pretending to work; malinger: He was soldiering on the job. 11. soldier on, to persist steadfastly in one's work; persevere: to soldier on until the work is done. [1250-1300; ME souldiour < OF soudier, so(l)dier, equiv. to soulde pay ( < L solidus; see SOL2) + -ier -IER2] |
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