infantry
音标：
美音：/ˈɪnfəntri/，英音：/ˈɪnfəntri/
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
The US is also providing Ukraine with more than 100 Bradley and Stryker armoured vehicles, and Germany 40 of its Marder infantry fighting vehicle – as well as tanks.
美国还向乌克兰提供 100 多辆 Bradley 和 Stryker 装甲车，向德国提供 40 辆 Marder 步兵战车以及坦克。
—BBC
The more lightly armored Stryker, because it is wheeled, can move much faster on paved roads, meaning it can get infantry squadrons into the fight faster.
装甲更轻的斯瑞克，因为它是轮式的，可以在铺砌的道路上移动得更快，这意味着它可以让步兵中队更快地投入战斗。
—Washington Times
The writer is a career Marine Corps infantry officer.
作者是职业海军陆战队步兵军官。
—Washington Post
基本释意：
noun
an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
n. 步兵；步兵团
同义词：
foot
短释义：
Armies usually contain different divisions for different purposes. For example, soldiers on horseback belong to the Cavalry, those who work in communications are in the Signal Corps, and soldiers specially trained to fight on foot are members of the Infantry.
为了不同的目的，军队通常包含不同的师。例如，骑马的士兵属于骑兵，从事通信工作的属于通信兵，专门训练步行作战的士兵属于步兵。
长释义：
It seems somewhat strange to have the word “infant” in a word that refers to a fighting military unit, but the word infantry once referred to the foot soldiers who were too young or too inexperienced to qualify for the cavalry. The word was taken from the Latin word for a youth, infantem, and so evolved into infantry after working its way through the Spanish, Italian, and French, appearing in English in the late 16th Century.
用“婴儿”这个词来指代战斗的军事单位似乎有些奇怪，但步兵一词曾经指的是太年轻或太缺乏经验的步兵，不适合骑兵。这个词取自拉丁语中青年的意思，infantem，在经过西班牙语、意大利语和法语的演化后演变为步兵，并于 16 世纪末以英语出现。
文学例句：
Their method was, first, to increase the prestige of their own soldiers by taking away the prestige of the infantry.
他们的手段，首先是通过夺走步兵的威望，来提升己方士兵的威望。
—The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
The last Reb infantry walked away over the last rise.
最后一个 Reb 步兵走开了最后一个上升。
—The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara
The failure of the Union infantry to obey Washburn’s orders to attack determined their fate.
联盟步兵未能服从沃什伯恩的进攻命令决定了他们的命运。
—Lincoln’s Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Bill O’Reilly
词源：
infantry (n.)1570s, from French infantrie, infanterie (16c.), from older Italian or Spanish infanteria “foot soldiers, force composed of those too inexperienced or low in rank to be cavalry,” a collective noun from infante “foot soldier,” originally “a youth,” from Latin infantem (see infant). Meaning “infants collectively” is recorded from 1610s. A Middle English (c. 1200) word for “foot-soldiers” was going-folc, literally “going-folk.”Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
infantry (n.)1570s，源自法语 infantrie，infanterie (16c.)，源自较早的意大利或西班牙 infanteria “步兵，由缺乏经验或军衔低到不能成为骑兵的人组成的部队”，来自 infante “步兵”的集体名词，”最初是“一个青年”，来自拉丁语 infantem（见婴儿）。意思是“婴儿集体”是从 1610 年代开始记录的。中世纪英语（约 1200 年）中表示“步兵”的词是 going-folc，字面意思是“going-folk”。相关条目及更多
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