| 单词 | silent service |
| 释义 | > as lemmassilent service silent service n. (also with upper-case initials) Navy colloquial (with the) the navy; (in later use also) spec. (originally U.S.) the submarine service.In early use probably not a fixed collocation. [With reference to the silent defensive vigilance of a navy or (in later use) a submarine fleet (operating undetected).] ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > [noun] > the British navy the king's (also queen's) navya1382 Royal Navy1583 the navy royal1601 the fleet1712 RN?1791 the senior service1899 silent service1904 1904 W. C. H. Wood Fight for Canada pref. p. xviii Do justice to the great silent service of the sea. 1943 N.Y. Times 28 Feb. e1/7 She was only the fourth United States submarine lost in Pacific combat. The other craft of the ‘silent service’..have accounted for 130 Japanese ships sunk. 1982 Daily Tel. 2 June 16/3 The Army learned certain lessons in Northern Ireland. The silent service did not share that experience. 2019 States News Service (Nexis) 9 Dec. As so often with the Silent Service, it's hard for those of us above the waves to know what really happened. < as lemmas |
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