corps

英 [kɔː] 美[kɔr]

CET4TEM8IELTSTOEFL中低频词常用词汇

复数: corps;

1. 末尾的字母s更像是表复数，表示很多身体、很多人构成的一个整体。

corps 军，军团

来自corp, 身体，实体。即成为一体的，军团。

corps (n.): late 13c., cors "body," from Old French cors "body, person, corpse, life" (9c.), from Latin corpus "body" (see corporeal). Sense in English evolved from "dead body" (13c.) to "live body" (14c.) to "body of citizens" (15c.) to "band of knights" (mid-15c.). The modern military sense (1704) is from French corps d'armée (16c.), picked up in English during Marlborough's campaigns.

French restored the Latin -p- in 14c., and English followed 15c., but the pronunciation remained "corse" at first and corse persisted as a parallel formation. After the -p- began to be sounded (16c. in English), corse became archaic or poetic only.

1. Encouraging teacher transfer would not, by itself, integrate the teaching corps.: 鼓励教师调动本身不会消弭教学队伍中的种族隔离。

2. David McNeil is travelling with the White House press corps.: 大卫·麦克尼尔正和白宫记者团一同前行。

3. She handled travel arrangements for the press corps during the presidential campaign.: 她负责了总统竞选活动期间新闻报道团的行程安排。

4. She was plucked from the corps de ballet to take on Juliet.: 她从芭蕾舞团的伴舞队中被挖掘出来，担任朱丽叶这一角色。