“Chindit”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

Chindit

释义

Chindit|ˈtʃɪndɪt|
[ad. Burmese chinthé, a mythological creature.]
A member of an Allied force fighting during the 1939–45 war behind the Japanese lines in Burma.
1943Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 12 May–3 Aug. 171 Some of Brigadier Wingate's doughty Chindits on their way back from the dangers of the jungle.1944A. Jacob Traveller's War xxii. 325 Shortly before I had never heard of Wingate or his Chindits as, at his suggestion, we began to call them. (Chindits are the fabulous lions which guard the Burmese pagodas.)1959Sunday Times 5 Apr. 9/6 Wingate..was in the autumn of 1942 looking for a name for his force. He was told that ‘chinthé’ was the Burmese word for lion. ‘Chindit?’ he asked, doubtfully... By the next spring..Mr. Alaric Jacob, who had talked with Wingate, was referring to the force as ‘The Chindits’.

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