epaulette
epaulette — 名詞
- epaulettesingular
- epaulettesplural
1. an ornamental pad or strip sewn onto the shoulders of a uniform or jacket, often
肩章；肩飾
軍服等肩上的裝飾墊或帶
an ornamental pad or strip sewn onto the shoulders of a uniform or jacket, often worn by soldiers and officers.
Piotr polished the gold epaulettes on his naval uniform before the ceremony.
Piotr 在典禮前擦亮了他海軍制服上的金色肩章。
collocation: gold epaulettes on a uniform
The general's epaulettes glittered under the bright lights as he walked onto the stage.
將軍走上舞台時，他的肩章在明亮的燈光下閃閃發亮。
Yara sewed a loose epaulette back onto her brother's jacket.
Yara 把鬆脫的肩章重新縫回哥哥的外套上。
collocation: sew an epaulette onto a jacket
Each epaulette on the soldier's coat had a small silver star.
士兵外套上的每個肩章都有一顆小小的銀星。
countable noun: each epaulette
At the museum, Ilan admired a red military coat with large epaulettes.
在博物館裡，Ilan 欣賞著一件帶有大型肩章的紅色軍外套。
- epaulet
variant spelling with a single t at the end
用法筆記
Countable noun, so the singular needs a determiner (an epaulette, the epaulette); the plural is epaulettes.