leatherneck
英 [ˈleð.ə.nek]
美 [ˈleð.ɚ.nek]
- n. 海军陆战队员
英语词源
- leatherneck (n.)
- "U.S. Marine," 1914, Navy slang, from leather + neck (n.). So called for the leather collars of their early uniforms; earlier in British use (1890) as a sailor's term for a soldier.
权威例句
- 1. A leatherneck or a grunt do not names to call someone.
- 海军陆战队员(leatherneck)和美国步兵(grunt)都不是对他人的合适称呼.
- 2. I did not know his nephew Jack became a leatherneck.
- 我不知道他的侄子杰克已加入海军陆战队.