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French Pioneer Foot Soldier Related 4514.Pioneer 英 Paɪə'Nɪə]美

正面 4514.pioneer
英 [paɪə'nɪə]美 [,paɪə'nɪr]

背面
释义:
n. 先锋;拓荒者vt. 开辟;倡导;提倡vi. 作先驱
例句:
1. She was a suffragette and a birth control pioneer.她参加争取妇女选举权的运动,也是节育倡导者。

pioneer【派你啊】先锋
pioneer 先驱,先锋来自法语pionnier,步兵,先头部队,来自古法语peon,步兵,卒,来自PIE*ped,脚,词源同foot,pawn,pilot.拼写比较pen,petal.
pioneerpioneer: [16] Pioneer was borrowed from French pionnier, a descendant of Old French paonier. This originally denoted a ‘foot soldier sent on ahead to clear the way’, and was a derivative of paon ‘foot soldier’ (whose Anglo-Norman version poun gave English pawn).=> foot, pawn, pedalpioneer (n.)1520s, "foot soldier who prepares the way for the army," from Middle French pionnier "foot-soldier, pioneer," from Old French paonier "foot-soldier" (11c.), from peon (see pawn (n.2)). Figurative sense of "person who goes first or does something first" is from c. 1600. Related: Pioneers.pioneer (v.)1780, from pioneer (n.). Related: Pioneered; pioneering."

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