单词 | cavalcade |
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音标 | [`kævəl'keid] |
解释 | n. 骑兵队伍 |
红宝书 | 【英】 n.骑兵队(a procession of horsemen or carriages) 【记】 可以看出caval有'骑 马'之意 |
字源 | cavalcade (n.) 1590s, via Middle French cavalcade (15c.), from Italian cavalcata, from cavalcare "to ride on horseback," from Vulgar Latin *caballicare (also source of Spanish cabalgada, Portuguese cavalgata), from Latin caballus (see cavalier). Literally, "a procession on horseback;" in 20c. -cade came to be regarded as a suffix and taken to form motorcade (1913), etc. |
不择手段背单词 | 无 |
趣味全助记 | 【记】音:铠卫,身穿铠甲的卫士;cave + all 山洞里(隐藏着)全都是骑兵 |
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