| 正面 | 10447.legion 英 ['liːdʒ(ə)n]美     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 【记】音：联军n. （古罗马）军团；众多；军队adj. 众多的；大量的 例句： 1. The number of women who become pregnant after adopting children is legion.领养小孩后怀孕的妇女比比皆是。 legion 军团来自拉丁语legere,选出，收集，词源同collect,colleague.引申词义军团。 legionlegion: see lecturelegion (n.)c. 1200, from Old French legion "Roman legion" (3,000 to 6,000 men, under Marius usually with attached cavalry), from Latin legionem (nominative legio) "body of soldiers," from legere "to choose, gather," also "to read" (see lecture (n.)). Generalized sense of "a large number" is due to translations of allusive phrase in Mark v:9. American Legion, U.S. association of ex-servicemen, founded in 1919. Legion of Honor is French légion d'honneur, an order of distinction founded by Napoleon in 1802. Foreign Legion is French légion étrangère "body of foreign volunteers in a modern army," originally Polish, Belgian, etc. units in French army; they traditionally served in colonies or distant expeditions." |