martinet
martinet 英 [ˌmɑ:tɪˈnet] 美 [ˌmɑrtnˈet]
n. 严格执行纪律的人
名词复数:martinets
- Use the noun martinet to describe someone who is a stickler when it comes to following rules, such as the teacher who won't accept homework if it is written in a color other than blue.
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- n. 严格执行纪律的人
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1. “Seat-to-seat chatting could lead to a negative form of social networking, ” said Jeanne martinet, a social commentator who writes the missmingle.com blog.
按照社会评论家珍妮·马蒂内的说法，座位与座位之间的交流可能造成负面的社会网络效应。
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2. Mrs. Abrams had fused my love of description and articulation with a martinet like organization to improve my writing by leaps and bounds. This allowed me to find my own style of writing.
爱波伦丝太太把我喜欢的讲究修辞用语的陈述和严密的组织结构融合在一起，使我在练习中发现了适合自己的写作风格，从而使我的写作水平大大地提高，产生了质的飞跃。
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3. She has a strained relationship with the proprietress, Madame Beck; the school doctor, John Bretton, is attracted to her, but Lucy loses her heart to the martinet professor, Paul Emanuel.
她与女所有人贝克夫人关系紧张；校医约翰 · 布赖顿被露西所吸引，但露西却爱上了严肃的保罗·伊曼纽尔教授。
- martinet (n.) 1670s, "system of strict discipline," from the name of Jean Martinet (killed at siege of Duisburg, 1672), lieutenant colonel in the Régiment du Roi, who in 1668 was appointed inspector general of the infantry. "It was his responsibility to introduce and enforce the drill and strict discipline of the French regiment of Guards across the whole infantry." [Olaf van Minwegen, "The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions 1588-1688," 2006] The meaning "an officer who is a stickler for strict discipline" is first attested 1779 in English. The surname is a diminutive of Latin Martinus (see Martin).
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