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Перевод: midshipman

[существительное]
корабельный гардемарин; гардемарин ; курсант военно-морского училища

Тезаурус:

1. No nation quite so much as the British likes its art to tell a story (witness the pictures of Victorian England) and no nation went overboard quite like the British to buy the Vung Tau cargo; but with French, German, Italian, Dutch and Taiwanese buyers sharing out these decorations of the age of William and Mary, we must assume that the "shipwreck factor" in these prices appeals to more than the nation which owned the Titanic and whose schoolboys read Mr Midshipman Easy and Moby Dick.
2. Lord Findlater wrote in favour of a young man named Robert Ross, who had returned to Britain after completing two voyages as midshipman in Captain Haldane of Airthrey's ship, the Duke of Gloucester .
3. He had been in charge of situations for the previous half century, since he had commanded guns on the Barham at the Battle of Jutland, as a midshipman, in the First World War.
4. Our lookout man on the forecastle reported her as close to our port bow, where also the officer of the watch from the bridge clearly saw her as did our quarter-deck midshipman, who was sent forward at once to the forecastle to report back.
5. Towards the end of September 1781, John Coleridge took his son Frank to Plymouth, where he was to begin service as a midshipman under Admiral Graves of Cadhay.
6. The myth that a man makes has transformations according as he sees himself as hero or villain, as young or old, but it is essentially the same myth; Tom Jones is not the same person, but he is the same myth as Squire Western; Midshipman Easy is part of the same myth; Falstaff is elevated above the myth to dwell on Olympus, more than a national character.
7. The board-and-label copy of Marryat's Mr. Midshipman Easy illustrated earlier admittedly with the added attraction of being Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy's copy - cost the buyer some 165 recently.
8. He also showed me the passage in Captain Marryat's Mr Midshipman Easy where Easy Sir, having invented a machine to alter the bumps on his head, tries to improve his personality; with fatal results.
9. At a certain point in his investigations, at the harbour in Trieste, the narrator imagines the pleasure felt by the midshipman who at that moment is explaining the lay-out and workings of his ship to two visitors, giving all the parts of the ship and all the instruments their proper names, which "have no synonyms" (Del Giudice 1983: 44); and muses further on his own dreams of navigation, envying the midshipman "the way in which he concentrates on the angle and the height, and his habit of considering himself in relation to something", above all "the exactitude of the chart" (45).
10. Moreover, through the agency of these men, many Scottish gentlemen found places as midshipmen on board East Indiamen and, with experience gained in that rank, could be advanced in the hierarchy of ship's officers, although it must be conceded that an appointment as midshipman, or fifth or sixth officer of an Indiaman was not to be compared to the value of a writership or cadetship in the Company's own service.
11. A few moments before sundown I extricated Wavebreaker 's folding bicycle from the big locker on the boat's after swimplatform, forced the rusting hinges open, then pedalled along Midshipman Road to the glittering block of apartments where our esteemed boss lived.
12. Of the less well known Indian appointments, a place in the Indian Marine also attracted a number of Scots even though it was based at unpopular Bombay, for it was a service which promoted by seniority, and death from wounds or disease could allow the rapid elevation of a healthy midshipman to a position of command.