英：['pwɑ:lu:]
美：['pwɑlu]
poilu如何读
poilu是什么意思
- n.法国兵
poilu变形
复数:poilus
poilu英英释义
Noun:
- a French soldier (especially in World War I)
- thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game; southern U.S.
poilu词源中文解释
1914年，法国士兵，来自法语 poilu，字面意思为“多毛的”，来自 poil “毛发”，不是头发，而是胡须、动物皮毛等，源自拉丁语 pilus（参见 pile (n.3)）。在19世纪的法语中，该形容词具有“强壮、勇敢、勇 courageous”的次要意义（巴尔扎克）。
poilu词源英文解释
French, from poilu hairy, from Middle French, from poil hair, from Old French peil, Latin pilus
The first known use of poilu was in 1914
poilu 例句
1 You know what that means, when tens of thousands of poilus have to be transferred during the darkness of night, so that the enemy pilots can't glimpse the movement and give warning?
2 The insurmountable French language, which kept doughboys and poilus at arm's length in spite of their best intentions, broke down with the youngsters.
3 He could glimpse long lines of poilus streaming over the shell-hole pitted terrain like ants in army array.
4 Officers shook hands with their men, while poilus turned and congratulated one another: for the thing was done.
5 Instead, all over Paris are sturdy bands of little "poilus," marching in their extremely supple order.
6 The poilus realized that before the film was done and so did the Indians.
7 They are here, the splendid, splendid soldiers who are the French poilus.
8 And of the diary this: He got it from a poilu who was struck By this same diary on the cheek.
9 Bless you! the poilus did the eating; I only did the seasoning and tasting.
10 If they are fond of the "poilu" style, they will find plenty of it here.
11 When the train came into Paris early the next morning the sailors were singing the chorus with the poilus.
12 He favored longer leaves from the front, he said, and better transportation for the poilus.
13 Next to him three exuberant French poilus half lay and half sat all in a heap, their shrapnel helmets, canteens and packs piled about them.
14 He, who the evening before had sung to the poilus downstairs, had had to send her to do their shopping!
15 Moreover, there was always the prospect of the return of some gallant French poilu for his holiday from the trenches.
16 Occasionally Mrs. Burton made her audience laugh until the tears ran down their wrinkled faces with funny stories of the trenches, of their own poilus, and the British Tommies and the new American Sammees.
17 A monument to the war dead — a statue of a French poilu, or doughboy, in bright colors — bears the names of 15 villagers, roughly 15 percent of the population then.
18 He made it possible for every poilu in a trench of five hundred miles to say: “Our generals do not send us where they will not go themselves.”
19 They are here, the poilus, advancing with their quick, swinging step, so bravely light for all the cruel heavy sacks on their backs and the rifles on their shoulders.
20 A detachment of poilus swung past in their horizon blue, and what a different type was flashed up against that background of square jowls, what a thin, nervous, wiry type, all animation....