awol
英 ['eiwɔl]
美
英語の語源
- awol (adj.)
- also a.w.o.l., military initialism (acronym) for absent without leave. The -o- seems to be there mostly so the assemblage can be pronounced as a word. In U.S. military use at least from World War II, popular use by 1960.
例文
- 1. The troops went AWOL to express their complaints about the camp.
- 部隊は勝手に撤退し、兵営に対する不満を示した。
- 2.He 's gone AWOL from his base.
- 基地から小さな差をつけた。
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- 3. He stained his military record by going AWOL [ a. w . o.l.=absent without official leave].
- 彼は勝手に職場を離れて軍の成績を汚した.
- 4.His real father had gone AWOL about 17 years earlier，and after that his mother had remarried.
- 彼の生みの親は17年前に別れを告げず、それ以来彼の母は再婚した。
- 5.At the evening roll call they discovered that he was AWOL .
- 夜点呼したとき、彼は小さな差をつけたことに気づいた。
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