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platoon

/pluh-toon/US // pləˈtun //UK // (pləˈtuːn) //

排,排长,排队,一排

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a military unit consisting of two or more squads or sections and a headquarters.
    • : a small unit of a police force.
    • : a company or group of persons: a platoon of visitors.
    • : Football. a group of players specially trained in one aspect of the game, as offense or defense, and used as a unit: a halfback on the offensive platoon.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Sports. to use at a position in a game alternately with another player or players.to alternate, as separate offensive and defensive squads.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Sports. to alternate at a position with another player or players.to use players alternately at the same position.to alternate different teams.

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Examples

  • A platoon of National Guard members stood beside him and snapped pictures as the sun set behind the Washington Monument.

  • When the platoon leader was wounded by a buried bomb, Lorance was sent to lead the men, though he had no combat experience.

  • If they don’t and instead form a right-left platoon at first, both Kieboom and García could be in the majors next spring.

  • There’s this feedback that promotes the formation of platoons, because it’s easier to coordinate 10 10-car platoons than 100 cars, each with its own trajectory.

  • For the first application of my doctoral project on self-organizing systems, I thought, “Let’s try to have platoons of cars flock like birds.”

  • But that was Oliver expunging all this anger he had from not being able to get Platoon made yet, which was his baby.

  • It was the part that Willem Dafoe wound up playing in Platoon.

  • Once every ten days, a platoon rotates back to Balad Air Base to take showers and wash clothes.

  • One day, “myself and Holmes found ourselves kind of secluded from the majority of the platoon,” Morlock tells Krauss.

  • As the platoon was leaving the compound, they came across a local: Mullah Adahdad.

  • A frenzied bustle ensued as Wilkins directed a platoon of awed techs through the process of bringing the mountain to Mohammed.

  • The bugler was ordered to blow the Assembly, and the whole platoon gathered in front of the mansion, which faced the east.

  • In another moment the men of the leading platoon had also fallen into the route step.

  • "Ranking sergeants of each platoon report here," called Captain Foster quietly, as he halted.

  • The remaining troops stayed behind as best they could, a few thousand here, a platoon there.