英语词汇“high private”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

high private n. U.S. Military colloquial (now historical and rare) (a) (with reference to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.) a cadet in the fourth and final year, esp. one who has not attained cadet officer rank; (b) an ordinary private soldier; a private.The meaning in quot. 1833 is uncertain but it may be a figurative use of sense (a).Quot. 1895 purports to represent in ‘substance’ words apparently spoken in 1836 by U.S. frontiersman Davy Crockett (1786–1836), but no contemporary evidence has been found to corroborate this.

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1833 Christian Intelligencer 13 Dec. 202/5 We are not yet Governor, and therefore it is not our duty to call the attention of the Legislature to the subject..but as a ‘high private’ it is our privilege to suggest and recommend, and we do so most seriously and earnestly.

1834 Mil. & Nav. Mag. U.S. Mar. 27 I..felt quite as proud of my being a ‘plebe’, as the third-class-man of his more dignified appellation of ‘Caitif’, the second-class-man of ‘old cadet’; or the first-class-man of ‘high private’.

1845 Crystal Fount & Rechabite Recorder 29 Nov. 185/1 It is truly ridiculous to keep men—the non-commissioned officers and ‘high privates’—standing an hour or so in the muddy streets, so that the ‘ossifers’ may enter some mansion or other to liquor up.

1870 Phrenol. Jrnl. & Packard's Monthly Nov. 363/2 I..enlisted as a high private in the rear rank of a Confederate cavalry regiment.

1895 J. Sutherland in J. S. Ford Origin & Fall Alamo 27 All the honor that I desire is that of defending as a high private, in common with my fellow citizens, the liberties of our common country.

1960 B. Catton in Amer. Heritage Picture Hist. Civil War 418/2 A great many enlisted men in the Northern armies could win officers' commissions in these [Negro] regiments, and a high private who saw a chance to become a lieutenant or a captain was likely to lose a great deal of his antagonism to the notion of Negro soldiers.

1982 J. Jakes North & South viii. 117 Among the first classmen, Orry was the only one not given a rank. He remained, as an old joke put it, a high private, which..showed how little his superiors thought of him.

单词	high private
释义	> as lemmas high private high private n. U.S. Military colloquial (now historical and rare) (a) (with reference to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.) a cadet in the fourth and final year, esp. one who has not attained cadet officer rank; (b) an ordinary private soldier; a private.The meaning in quot. 1833 is uncertain but it may be a figurative use of sense (a).Quot. 1895 purports to represent in ‘substance’ words apparently spoken in 1836 by U.S. frontiersman Davy Crockett (1786–1836), but no contemporary evidence has been found to corroborate this. ΚΠ 1833 Christian Intelligencer 13 Dec. 202/5 We are not yet Governor, and therefore it is not our duty to call the attention of the Legislature to the subject..but as a ‘high private’ it is our privilege to suggest and recommend, and we do so most seriously and earnestly. 1834 Mil. & Nav. Mag. U.S. Mar. 27 I..felt quite as proud of my being a ‘plebe’, as the third-class-man of his more dignified appellation of ‘Caitif’, the second-class-man of ‘old cadet’; or the first-class-man of ‘high private’. 1845 Crystal Fount & Rechabite Recorder 29 Nov. 185/1 It is truly ridiculous to keep men—the non-commissioned officers and ‘high privates’—standing an hour or so in the muddy streets, so that the ‘ossifers’ may enter some mansion or other to liquor up. 1870 Phrenol. Jrnl. & Packard's Monthly Nov. 363/2 I..enlisted as a high private in the rear rank of a Confederate cavalry regiment. 1895 J. Sutherland in J. S. Ford Origin & Fall Alamo 27 All the honor that I desire is that of defending as a high private, in common with my fellow citizens, the liberties of our common country. 1960 B. Catton in Amer. Heritage Picture Hist. Civil War 418/2 A great many enlisted men in the Northern armies could win officers' commissions in these [Negro] regiments, and a high private who saw a chance to become a lieutenant or a captain was likely to lose a great deal of his antagonism to the notion of Negro soldiers. 1982 J. Jakes North & South viii. 117 Among the first classmen, Orry was the only one not given a rank. He remained, as an old joke put it, a high private, which..showed how little his superiors thought of him. extracted from highadj.n.² < as lemmas
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