garrison: [13] The notion underlying garrison is of ‘protection’. Its ultimate source was Germanic *war-, denoting ‘caution’, which also produced English ward, warn, wary, and the -ware of beware. This produced the verb *warjan ‘protect, defend’, which Old French borrowed as garir (the related garer gave English garage). From it was derived the Old French noun garison ‘defence, protection’, from which English borrowed garrison. The concrete senses ‘fortress’, and hence ‘detachment of troops in such a fortress’, developed in the 15th century. => beware, garage, ward, warn, wary
garrison (v.)
"to place troops in," 1560s, from garrison (n.). Related: Garrisoned; garrisoning.
garrison (n.)
c. 1300, "store, treasure," from Old French garison "defense, protection, safety, security; crops, food; salvation; healing, recovery, cure" (Modern French guérison "cure, recovery, healing") from garir "defend" (see garret). Meaning "fortified stronghold" is from early 15c.; that of "body of troops in a fortress" is from mid-15c., a sense taken over from Middle English garnison "body of armed men stationed in a fort or town to guard it" (late 14c.), from Old French garnison "provision, munitions," from garnir "to furnish, provide" (see garnish (v.)).
双语例句
1. The approaches to the garrison have been heavily mined.
通往驻防地的道路上地雷密布。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Does your film make a hero of Jim Garrison?
您的影片是否将杰姆·加里森塑造成一名英雄人物?
来自柯林斯例句
3. The Prussian garrison at Charleroi was falling back.
普鲁士驻沙勒罗瓦的部队正在撤退。
来自柯林斯例句
4. The troops came to the relief of the besieged garrison.
军队来援救被围的守备军.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5. The invading army had massacred many of the garrison after capitulation.