a young person who is training to become an officer in the police or armed forces 警官(或军官)学员;警官(或军官)候补生 army cadets 陆军军校学员 The military academy trains up to 2 000 officer cadets each year. 该军官学校每年可培养多达 2,000 名士官生。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- army
- military
- naval
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- train
- march
- train
- graduate
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- corps
Word Originearly 17th cent. (originally in the sense of a younger son or daughter): from French, from Gascon dialect capdet, a diminutive based on Latin caput ‘head’. The notion “little head” or “inferior head” gave rise to that of ‘younger, junior’.