cadet 英 [kəˈdet] 美 [kəˈdet]
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外刊例句
On May 9th Jeff Bezos, the boss of Amazon, had his coming-out party as a space cadet.
5月9日，亚马逊的老板杰夫·贝佐斯作为太空探索界的新人首次正式“亮相”。
——《经济学人》
THOUGH Audrey Iriberri and Capt. Karl Stadler overlapped for a year as cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point, that’s not where they met.
虽然奥黛丽·伊里韦里和卡尔·斯坦德勒上尉同以军官学员的身份在西点军校进修过一年，但他们并不是在那里相识的。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[noun] a young person who is training to become an officer in the police or armed forces
[名词] 军校学员，警校学员
深入解读
cadet来自法语，源自拉丁语capitellum，是caput（头）的指小形式，字面意思就是“小首领”，用来表示贵族家庭中的次子。因为中世纪贵族的头衔只能由家中长子继承，所以长子就是家中的首领，而次子只能是“小首领”，只有当哥哥死了才有资格继承贵族头衔。
贵族家庭中的次子通常选择从军，希望通过军功来谋取功名。因此，cadet原本用来称呼军营中的这些贵族子弟。后来词义扩大，用来泛指军校或警校中的学生。
同近义词
midshipman: a person training to be an officer in the navy
plebe: (US, informal) a first-year student at a military or naval college in the US
recruit: a person who has recently joined the armed forces or the police
