dragoon

英 [drəˈɡuːn]

美 [drəˈɡuːn]

n.  (旧时携枪的)骑兵
vt.  强制; 以武力迫害; 暴力镇压

复数：dragoons　过去分词：dragooned　过去式：dragooned　现在分词：dragooning　第三人称单数：dragoons　

Collins.1 / BNC.17337 / COCA.28192

短语用例

dragoon sb into sth/into doing sth

• 迫使就范；勉强人做（不愿做的事）
  to force or persuade sb to do sth that they do not want to do

牛津词典

noun

• （旧时携枪的）骑兵
  a soldier in the past who rode a horse and carried a gun

verb

verb

柯林斯词典

• (旧时欧洲的)骑兵
  Adragoonwas a soldier in old European armies. Dragoons usually fought on horseback.
• VERB 迫使;强使…做
  If someonedragoonsyouintodoing something that you do not want to do, they persuade you to do it even though you try hard not to agree.
  1. ...the history professor who had dragooned me into taking the exam...
     迫使我参加考试的历史教授
  2. Her husband had also been dragooned into the excursion.
     她的丈夫也被拉来参加远足了。

英英释义

noun

• a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen

verb

• subjugate by imposing troops
• compel by coercion, threats, or crude means
  1. They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone
  Synonym:sandbagrailroad

双语例句

• Some declare that a blast of trumpets sounding the charge was heard in the direction of the Arsenal others that a blow from a dagger was given by a child to a dragoon.
  有人说听到在兵工厂那边响起了冲锋号，也有人说是有个孩子给一个龙骑兵一匕首。
• Who could have ever expected that a dragoon would drink sixpenny ale, smoke horrid bird's-eye tobacco, and let his wife wear a shabby bonnet?
  谁能料到一个龙骑兵会喝六便士一瓶的啤酒，抽蹩脚得可怕的鸟眼牌烟草，会让他的妻子戴一顶破破烂烂的帽子啊？
• And you can expect Dragoon to focus on poorly defended areas.
  你也可以要求龙骑兵重点保护防守较弱的地区。
• And then a few years ago, they may favor dragoon, and then to now is a hero.
  然后前几年又流行龙骑，然后到现在是英雄。
• "Sir," said the valet de chambre, entering the room," a dragoon has brought this despatch from the Minister of the interior."
  “老爷，”跟班走进房间里来说，“内政部的一个龙骑兵送来了这封信。”
• The term derived from his weapon, a short musket called the dragoon.
  因其所使用的一种名为龙骑枪的短滑膛枪而得名。
• Guardsman Lee Williams, 18, is one of the Desert Rats 'Royal Scots Dragoon Guards battle group.
  18岁的李·威廉是英国“沙漠之鼠”苏格兰皇家近卫团卫兵。
• She seems to have this ghastly need to dragoon us all into her schemes.
  她似乎非要逼我们大家都参与她那些计划不可。
• When we saved Honest John and his dragoon?
  正直的约翰和他的骑兵吗？
• You will make a fine dragoon, young man.
  你一定会成为优秀的骑兵的。