ensign

• n. 旗；徽章；記章
• n. (Ensign)人名; (Eng.)少尉.

en-、入る、作る。 sign、印、サイン。

ensign

ensign: see sign

ensign (n.)

early 15c., "a token, sign, symbol; badge of office, mark or insignia of authority or rank;" also "battle flag, flag or banner of a ship or troop of soldiers," via Scottish, from Old French enseigne (12c.) "mark, symbol, signal; flag, standard, pennant," from Latin insignia (plural); see insignia, which is a doublet of this word. As the word for the soldier who carries the flag, 1510s. U.S. Navy sense of "commissioned officer of the lowest rank" is from 1862. French navy had rank of enseigne de vaisseau since at least early 18c. Until 1871 one of the lowest grades of commissioned officers in a British army infantry regiment, also a rank in the American Revolutionary army.

1. He had been a naval ensign stationed off Cuba.

彼はキューバに駐在する海軍少尉だ。

2. Ensign was a retriever，and retrieved everything that wasn 't nailed down.

「エンセイン」は獲物を取り戻す猟犬で、どんなものでも釘で釘で打たなければ取り戻すことができる。

3.He then waved the tattered ensign above his head.

そして、その支離滅裂な旗を頭上に高く掲げて振り上げた。

4.This rascal had the sassiest bride of any ensign in the old division.

当時艦隊にいた海軍少尉の中で、こいつの花嫁が一番きれいだった。

5.Those fellows believe that one can 't become a general without having served first as an ensign .

少尉として兵役に服していない人が将軍になったとは、彼らにとっては想像もできないほどだ。