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

noun

verb

(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。

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

When we saved Honest John and his dragoon?
正直的约翰和他的骑兵吗？
The dragoon officers and Foker clapped their hands furiously.
龙骑兵军官和福克发疯似地鼓掌。
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。
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。
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。
You will make a fine dragoon, young man.
你一定会成为优秀的骑兵的。
In an instant the fourteen hundred dragoon guards numbered only eight hundred.
一刹那间，那一千四百名龙骑卫队只剩下八百了，他们的大佐弗来也落马而死。
Yes, the Stalkers are worthy replacements of the Dragoon.
追踪者算是代替了龙骑士么？
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。
"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。”