commando

• n. コマンドー、コマンドー

アフリカーンス語のボーア戦争時の言葉で、語源的にはコマンド、オーダーと同じ。

commando (n.)

Afrikaans, "a troop under a commander," from Portuguese, literally "party commanded" (see command (v.)); in use c. 1809 during the Peninsula campaign, then from 1834, in a South African sense, of military expeditions of the Boers against the natives; modern sense is from 1940 (originally shock troops to repel the threatened German invasion of England), first attested in writings of Winston Churchill, who could have picked it up during the Boer War. Phrase going commando "not wearing underwear" attested by 1996, U.S. slang, perhaps on notion of being ready for instant action.

1. The hostages were freed in the commando raid.

突撃隊の奇襲行動で人質が解放された。

2.The commando force joined up with the airborne troops near the captured bridge.

占領された橋の近くで、突撃隊と空挺部隊が合流した。

3.You know he 's a veteran of five successful commando raids？

彼が5回の突撃に成功したベテランだと知っていますか。

4.In the attack the Jewish Center to Mumbai，India，a commando injured.

ムンバイのユダヤ人センターを強攻する過程で、インドの突撃隊員が負傷した。

5.The gunmen were said to be wearing Iraqi police commando uniforms.

銃所持者はイラク警察突撃隊の制服を着ているという。