sapper

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 săpʹər

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A combat engineer; an engineer or a soldier engaged in attacking, destroying, and circumventing or building fortifications, bridges, and roads; a military engineer active in a combat zone.
    — his knowledge of Arabic and freedom from the theories of the ordinary sapper-school enabled him to teach the art of demolition to unlettered Beduin in a quick and ready way.
  2. An officer or private of the Royal Engineers. UK,colloquial
    — By a remarkable piece of railway reconstruction work on the part of the Allied Forces—mainly South African railway construction troops—mines laid along the track by the retreating enemy were removed by sappers, and the German damage made good, within 7 days.
  3. a person generally engaged in digging requiring a level of professionalism
    — Let no Bank consider itself safe from the skill and daring of such sappers and miners.

词形变化

sappers plural

词源

Borrowed from Middle French sappeur (French sapeur). By surface analysis, sap + -er.
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