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deserter

/dih-zur-ter/US // dɪˈzɜr tər //

逃兵,逃亡者,逃跑者,开小差的人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a soldier or draftee who leaves or runs away from service or duty with the intention of never returning: Deserters from the rebel army tell of low morale among its remaining fighters.
    • : a person who fails to uphold a cause or who abandons someone else, especially in violation of a promise or obligation: Some of those remaining in the home country view emigrants living abroad as deserters from their mother culture.A family deserter is one who can but will not support a spouse or dependents.

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Examples

  • The temperature has hit the mid-80s, and the desert is squeezing hydration from our bodies.

  • Shafer Canyon Road rises from the Utah desert like a coiled snake, six switchbacks and 1,200 vertical feet of sandy, sunbaked malice poised between us and lunch, beers and one final killer view.

  • Kyler Murray’s heave through the desert sky and into DeAndre Hopkins’s padlock-strength hands was an unbelievable play that, with perspective, only grows in its improbability.

  • It won’t be widely flown for several months as airlines must first train pilots, inspect jets emerging from long desert sojourns and complete the FAA-mandated repairs.

  • Instead, he’s more like an oasis in the desert, there to give Ayton and Booker the fuel they need to reach another level — and, if all goes according to plan, help take the Suns back to the playoffs in the process.

  • The last deserter to be executed had been during the Civil War.

  • Somebody on Twitter made a big deal out of the fact that I put the word “deserter” in quotes.

  • People can believe he is a deserter all they want, and maybe he is.

  • Republicans are hitting the pipe big time on the ‘deserter’—and their creepy bottom line is that he should have been left to die.

  • And that the truth is: Bergdahl was a deserter, and soldiers from his own unit died trying to track him down.

  • The wife must live with him, and a refusal on her part to live in the home provided by him would constitute her a deserter.

  • As a line beneath the title explains, the tale concerns a matrimonial deserter.

  • When the captain was told what had taken place, he saw that the British were trying to make trouble about the Irish deserter.

  • For that very night a British sailor came on board the Constitution, who said he was a deserter from the Havana.

  • A deserter piloted the detachment safely over the torpedoes which had been planted in front of them.