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gendarme

/zhahn-dahrm; French zhahn-darm/US // ˈʒɑn dɑrm; French ʒɑ̃ˈdarm //UK // (ˈʒɒndɑːm, French ʒɑ̃darm) //

宪兵,宪兵队,宪警,宪兵队长

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural gen·darmes [zhahn-dahrmz; French zhahn-darm]. /ˈʒɑn dɑrmz; French ʒɑ̃ˈdarm/.

    • : a police officer in any of several European countries, especially a French police officer.
    • : a soldier, especially in France, serving in an army group acting as armed police with authority over civilians.
    • : a cavalryman in charge of a French cavalry squad.

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Examples

  • In September, Francis told the Swiss Guard and the Gendarme that the only real threats the Vatican faces are from within.

  • His father was executed in 1942 by a German gendarme after attempting to smuggle a packet of saccharine into the Ghetto.

  • A French gendarme on the case has been dispatched to London, where he will be joined by three additional French investigators.

  • The gendarme moved quietly away, and repeated what he had heard to his captain.

  • The gendarme passed on, without deigning to thank the wretched looking man in a faded fez and torn coat.

  • He finished with a gesture of supreme disgust, as if friendship with a gendarme were the basest of crimes.

  • When mother had recovered enough to speak she began to argue with the gendarme, telling him our story and begging him to be kind.

  • Mamma asked him why, but he said nothing and left the car, another gendarme entering as he did so.