dragoon

noun

1. （旧时携枪的）骑兵
   a soldier in the past who rode a horse and carried a gun

verb

verb

1. (旧时欧洲的)骑兵
   A dragoon was a soldier in old European armies. Dragoons usually fought on horseback.
2. VERB 迫使;强使…做
   If someone dragoons you into doing something that you do not want to do, they persuade you to do it even though you try hard not to agree.
   1. ...the history professor who had dragooned me into taking the exam...
      迫使我参加考试的历史教授
   2. Her husband had also been dragooned into the excursion.
      她的丈夫也被拉来参加远足了。

1. Her husband had also been dragooned into the excursion.
   她的丈夫也被拉来参加远足了。
2. In an instant the fourteen hundred dragoon guards numbered only eight hundred.
   一刹那间，那一千四百名龙骑卫队只剩下八百了，他们的大佐弗来也落马而死。
3. And you can expect Dragoon to focus on poorly defended areas.
   你也可以要求龙骑兵重点保护防守较弱的地区。
4. The dragoon officers and Foker clapped their hands furiously.
   龙骑兵军官和福克发疯似地鼓掌。
5. "Sir," said the valet de chambre, entering the room," a dragoon has brought this despatch from the Minister of the interior."
   “老爷，”跟班走进房间里来说，“内政部的一个龙骑兵送来了这封信。”
6. She seems to have this ghastly need to dragoon us all into her schemes.
   她似乎非要逼我们大家都参与她那些计划不可。
7. The term derived from his weapon, a short musket called the dragoon.
   因其所使用的一种名为龙骑枪的短滑膛枪而得名。
8. Some declare that a blast of trumpets sounding the charge was heard in the direction of the Arsenal others that a blow from a dagger was given by a child to a dragoon.
   有人说听到在兵工厂那边响起了冲锋号，也有人说是有个孩子给一个龙骑兵一匕首。
9. When we saved Honest John and his dragoon?
   正直的约翰和他的骑兵吗？
10. Who could have ever expected that a dragoon would drink sixpenny ale, smoke horrid bird's-eye tobacco, and let his wife wear a shabby bonnet?
    谁能料到一个龙骑兵会喝六便士一瓶的啤酒，抽蹩脚得可怕的鸟眼牌烟草，会让他的妻子戴一顶破破烂烂的帽子啊？
11. The city of Al-Drifa became an asylum for those who wanted to escape from Dragoon and his troops.
    艾尔德利法的城市成为了那些想避免巨龙军队的攻击的人的庇护所。
12. Guardsman Lee Williams, 18, is one of the Desert Rats 'Royal Scots Dragoon Guards battle group.
    18岁的李·威廉是英国“沙漠之鼠”苏格兰皇家近卫团卫兵。
13. Yes, the Stalkers are worthy replacements of the Dragoon.
    追踪者算是代替了龙骑士么？
14. And then a few years ago, they may favor dragoon, and then to now is a hero.
    然后前几年又流行龙骑，然后到现在是英雄。
15. This is the only reason why dragoon did not slaughter the dwarves, but it did not stop them from performing underground resistance actions.
    这就是巨龙为什么没有屠杀矮人的原因，但是却不能阻止矮人的地下抵抗运行。
16. You will make a fine dragoon, young man.
    你一定会成为优秀的骑兵的。
17. In "Enter a Dragoon", Hardy pours more of his feminist ideas into his heroine.
    在《晚到的骑兵》中，哈代倾注了他更多的女性主义意识。

dragoon sb into sth/into doing sth

1. 迫使就范；勉强人做（不愿做的事）
   to force or persuade sb to do sth that they do not want to do

noun

1. a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen

verb

1. subjugate by imposing troops

2. compel by coercion, threats, or crude means
   1. They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone

   Synonym:    sandbagrailroad