Cohort

cohort







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n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    一隊人;一群人

          2.    同伴;支持者;共謀人

          3.    (羅馬)步兵大隊





Dictionary.com



–noun 

1. a group or company: She has a cohort of [admirers].  

2. a companion or associate. 

3. one of the ten divisions in an ancient Roman legion, numbering from 300 to 600 soldiers. 

4. any group of soldiers or warriors. 

5. an accomplice; abettor (共犯): 



He got off with probation (緩刑), but his cohorts got ten years [apiece].  



6. a group of persons sharing a particular statistical or demographic characteristic: the cohort of all children [born in 1980]. 

7. Biology. an individual in a population of the same species.  



—Synonyms 

2. friend, comrade, fellow, chum (室友魚餌), pal, buddy.





The Columbia Guide to Standard American English



cohort (n.)   

 

was originally the name for one-tenth of a Roman legion, but it has generalized, especially in American English, in ways not every commentator likes. It came first to mean "any group or gathering of soldiers" and then "a group of any sort."



Later it came to mean "supporters" in the political sense, and then it took on in this country the meaning "a group of individuals," rather than "a unit of troops." 



And so it came to mean "friends" or even "stalwarts (忠實成員), companions, partners, or buddies." And all these senses are now Standard, the earlier, more specialized ones needing careful contextual control to prevent ambiguity. 





3. Word Choice: New Uses, Common Confusion, and Constraint



§ 64. cohort 



Education is not what you have learned but what you can still remember, and there are some today who remember from their second-year Latin that a "cohort" in Caesar’s Gallic Wars was a unit of soldiers. 



There were six "centuries" (100 men) to a cohort, ten cohorts to a "legion" (therefore 6000 men). A century, then, would correspond to a company, a cohort to a battalion, and a legion to a regiment. The bodyguard of a Roman general was also called a cohors. 



Because of the word’s history, some people insist that cohort should only be used to refer to a group of people and never to an individual person. In recent years, however, the use of cohort to refer to an individual rather than a group has become very common and is now in fact the dominant usage. 



Seventy-one percent of the Usage Panel accepts the sentence The cashiered dictator and his cohorts have all written their memoirs, while only 43 percent accept The gangster walked into the room surrounded by his cohort. 



Also, perhaps because of its original military and paramilitary associations, cohort usually has a somewhat negative connotation, and therefore critics of the President rather than his supporters might use a phrase like 



the President and his cohorts.





　

Along for the ride are a slew of new cohorts, including Shia LaBeouf, Ray Winstone and John Hurt, with a few new delicious baddies (Cate Blanchett, Igor Jijikine) to add to his roster of villains.





　

His affiliations begin to change when Mario and his hoodlums target Manrico, now a communist organizer at a local factory. Luchetti finally injects a sinister note during a student performance of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy"; the hall is surrounded by blackshirts objecting to Marxist sentiments expressed in the amusingly reworked libretto. 



This leads to a bust-up that marks Accio's definitive break with his former cohorts.



hoodlum

【美】【口】無賴;流氓

libretto

(歌劇等的)歌詞; (歌劇等的)劇本





see retinue hooligan



segue rendition  

coda penultimate

schmaltz serenade aria crescendo

pastiche threnody

cacophony