commando


n. 突击队,突击队员

中文词源

commando 突击队

来自南非荷兰语布尔战争用语,词源同command, 命令。

英文词源

commando (n.)
Afrikaans, "a troop under a commander," from Portuguese, literally "party commanded" (see command (v.)); in use c. 1809 during the Peninsula campaign, then from 1834, in a South African sense, of military expeditions of the Boers against the natives; modern sense is from 1940 (originally shock troops to repel the threatened German invasion of England), first attested in writings of Winston Churchill, who could have picked it up during the Boer War. Phrase going commando "not wearing underwear" attested by 1996, U.S. slang, perhaps on notion of being ready for instant action.

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1. The hostages were freed in the commando raid.
在突击队的突袭行动中,人质获释。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The commando force joined up with the airborne troops near the captured bridge.
在被占领的桥梁附近,突击队和空降部队会合.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. You know he's a veteran of five successful commando raids?
你知道他是五次成功突击的老手 吗 ?
来自电影对白
4. In the attack the Jewish center to Mumbai, India, a commando injured.
在强攻们孟买犹太人中心的过程中, 一名印度突击队员受伤.
来自互联网
5. The gunmen were said to be wearing Iraqi police commando uniforms.
据称持枪分子身穿伊拉克警察突击队的制服.
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