navy

英 ['ne?v?] 美['nevi]

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復數:?navies;

1、nav- + -y.
2、含義：fleet, ship, fleet of ships, especially for purposes of war.

navy 海軍

來自拉丁語navis,船，詞源同navigate,nautical.引申詞義海軍。

navy: navy: [14] Latin nāvis ‘ship’ is the ultimate source of navy. In post-classical times it spawned an offspring nāvia ‘fleet’, which passed into English via Old French navie. Other Latin derivatives of nāvis were nāvālis, source of English naval [16], and the verb nāvigāre ‘manage a ship’, from which English gets navigate [16] (navvy [19] originated as a colloquial abbreviation for navigator, a term applied to someone who dug ‘navigation canals’).

In medieval Latin nāvis was applied to the central part of a church, from the passing resemblance in shape to a ship, and the word was anglicized as nave [17]. Nāvis was related to Greek naus ‘ship’, whose contributions to English include nautical [16], nautilus [17], nausea [16] (etymologically ‘seasickness’), and, somewhat surprisingly, noise.
=> nausea, nautical, navigate, noise
navy (n.): early 14c., "fleet of ships," especially for purposes of war, from Old French navie "fleet; ship," from Latin navigia, plural of navigium "vessel, boat," from navis "ship" (see naval). Meaning "a nation's collective, organized sea power" is from 1530s. The Old English words were sciphere (usually of Viking invaders) and scipfierd (usually of the home defenses). Navy blue was the color of the British naval uniform. Navy bean attested from 1856, so called because they were grown to be used by the Navy.

1. The Navy is to carry out an examination of the wreck tomorrow.: 海軍明天將對失事船只進行細查。

2. There was very little snobbery or class-consciousness in the wartime navy.: 戰時的海軍中很少有勢利眼，階級意識也不強。

4. Dickie bored him all through the meal with stories of the Navy.: 迪基吃飯時一直在講海軍的故事，讓他不勝其煩。

5. It hasn't stopped the British Navy proceeding on its merry way.: 這沒有阻止英國海軍繼續得意揚揚地前進的步伐。