adjutant: [17] An adjutant was formerly simply an ‘a(chǎn)ssistant’, but the more specific military sense of an officer who acts as an aide to a more senior officer has now virtually ousted this original meaning. The word comes from a Latin verb for ‘help’, and is in fact related to English aid. Latin adjuvāre ‘help’ developed a new form, adjūtāre, denoting repeated action, and the present participial stem of this, adjutant- ‘helping’, was borrowed into English. => aid, coadjutor
adjutant (n.)
"military officer who assists superior officers," c. 1600, from Latin adiutantem (nominative adiutans), present participle of adiutare "to give help to, help zealously, serve," frequentative of adiuvare (past participle adiutus) "help, assist, aid, support," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + iuvare "to help, give strength, support," perhaps from same root as iuvenis "young person" (see young).
雙語例句
1. I'm going out myself with the adjutant to recce training areas.
我要親自和副官出去偵察一下訓練地區(qū).
來自辭典例句
2. Outside the sergeant - adjutant knelt down beside me where I lay, " Name? " he asked softly.
到了外邊,軍曹副官跪在我的身邊, “ 貴姓? ” 他輕輕地問.
來自辭典例句
3. Also did not take adjutant, did the general leave alone so?
也沒帶副官, 將軍就這樣只身離去了?
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
4. Rick met his adjutant at the hatch.
瑞克在艙里遇到他的副官.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
5. I am Guardsman Valleroy , adjutant to Lt . Mumphreys.