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单词 first lieutenant
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Definition of first lieutenant in English:

first lieutenant

noun
  • 1A naval officer with executive responsibility for a ship or other command.

    舰务官

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Despite his poor fitness reports, he was promoted to first lieutenant while on the ship.
    • Piper, made no fewer than 39 patrols as a third hand, first lieutenant and Commanding Officer, in Ursula, Unbeaten and Unsparing.
    • Further confusion was added by William Pryce Cunby, first lieutenant on Nelson's flagship, Bellerophon, who gave it as: ‘England expects that every man will do his duty.’
    • It was said, for example, that an engineer four-striper at Sheerness expressed interest, while visiting a submarine, in the business of submerging: he asked the first lieutenant where he got the water from to fill main ballast tanks.
    • Another of the officers at the drumhead court, the first lieutenant is also the second in command of the ship.
    • Appointed first lieutenant in the Continental navy in 1775, Jones received the command of the eighteen-gun sloop Ranger in 1777.
    • Today Jacqueline is a graduate and a first lieutenant in the Royal Navy.
    1. 1.1 A rank of officer in the US army or air force, above second lieutenant and below captain.
      (美国陆军或空军)中尉
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A former first lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserves, he runs a regimented program.
      • Michael quickly rose through the ranks as orderly sergeant, first lieutenant and captain.
      • The first lieutenant was killed when that aircraft crashed several minutes into the training flight.
      • He won a theatre award at Bronx Science, and after studying at New York University's old University Heights campus and spending time in the Army as a first lieutenant in the infantry, he set out for Manhattan and the world of the stage.
      • Once a first lieutenant in the Army, he had chosen to resign and was punished by being conscripted as a soldier back into the same unit.
      • Her son, an army first lieutenant, was killed in the war.
      • Typically, UND alumni are promoted to first lieutenant in about 18 months then to captain well within their six years of active duty.
      • In December 1942, six months after his promotion to first lieutenant, he applied for pilot training.
      • Rather than drop out altogether like his fictional creation, however, he persevered in the corps, becoming a first lieutenant and second-in-command of his squadron before his discharge in 1960.
      • A first lieutenant and two soldiers from the logistics task force manned the Rhein-Main Air Base movement control liaison team.
      • One of the first lieutenants, just sitting around one cold foggy morning, started a rumor that the 17th would soon be transferred, just to see how long it would take to get back to him; he heard it as a ‘fact’ later that same day!
      • The retired Colonel, then a first lieutenant, said that soldiers in his unit opened fire from their foxholes.
      • She earned the rank of first lieutenant and was promoted to captain of inactive reserves when she mustered out.
      • After all, another high-altitude bailout the year before resulted in just injury for a first lieutenant.
      • This time, the first pilot who was a first lieutenant like me… said ‘let's see if you can do the takeoff.’
      • Halfway through his medical training he earned the rank of first lieutenant and, upon graduation, he was a fully-fledged captain.

Definition of first lieutenant in US English:

first lieutenant

nounˈˌfərs(t) luˈtɛnənt
  • 1A commissioned officer in the US Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps ranking above second lieutenant and below captain.

    (美国陆军或空军)中尉

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The first lieutenant was killed when that aircraft crashed several minutes into the training flight.
    • Her son, an army first lieutenant, was killed in the war.
    • He won a theatre award at Bronx Science, and after studying at New York University's old University Heights campus and spending time in the Army as a first lieutenant in the infantry, he set out for Manhattan and the world of the stage.
    • Rather than drop out altogether like his fictional creation, however, he persevered in the corps, becoming a first lieutenant and second-in-command of his squadron before his discharge in 1960.
    • Once a first lieutenant in the Army, he had chosen to resign and was punished by being conscripted as a soldier back into the same unit.
    • She earned the rank of first lieutenant and was promoted to captain of inactive reserves when she mustered out.
    • This time, the first pilot who was a first lieutenant like me… said ‘let's see if you can do the takeoff.’
    • Michael quickly rose through the ranks as orderly sergeant, first lieutenant and captain.
    • Halfway through his medical training he earned the rank of first lieutenant and, upon graduation, he was a fully-fledged captain.
    • A first lieutenant and two soldiers from the logistics task force manned the Rhein-Main Air Base movement control liaison team.
    • In December 1942, six months after his promotion to first lieutenant, he applied for pilot training.
    • A former first lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserves, he runs a regimented program.
    • One of the first lieutenants, just sitting around one cold foggy morning, started a rumor that the 17th would soon be transferred, just to see how long it would take to get back to him; he heard it as a ‘fact’ later that same day!
    • Typically, UND alumni are promoted to first lieutenant in about 18 months then to captain well within their six years of active duty.
    • After all, another high-altitude bailout the year before resulted in just injury for a first lieutenant.
    • The retired Colonel, then a first lieutenant, said that soldiers in his unit opened fire from their foxholes.
    1. 1.1 A naval officer with executive responsibility for a ship or other command.
      舰务官
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