centurion

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /sɛnˈtjʊəɹ.i.ən/|/sɛnˈtʃʊəɹ.i.ən/|/-ɔːɹ.i.ən/    美 /sɛnˈtjʊɹ.i.ən/|/sɛnˈtʊɹ.i.ən/|/-ɚ.i.ən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An officer of the ancient Roman army, in command of a century of soldiers. historical
    — “Man,” said the largest, most protective of the Praetorian guard, her lover, no doubt, and her peroxide-blond centurion, “for an apostle of peace you sure are filled up with war.”
  2. A player who scores a century.
  3. A pilot in the United States Navy who has performed one hundred night landings on an aircraft carrier. US

词形变化

centurions plural

词汇关系

衍生词
centurion's staff centurion syndrome
相关词
century

词源

From Middle English centurioun, from Latin centuriō, centuriōnis (“a commander of a hundred, centurion”), from Latin centum (“a hundred”). Displaced native English hundreder and hundredman, from Middle English hundredman, from Old English hundredmann (“centurion”).
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