英语词组cannon fodder是什么意思，短语翻译、用法及例句-英语词组固定搭配大全

idiomcannon fodder1 army ordinary people, especially soldiers with a low rank in the army, navy etc, who are allowed to be killed or hurt during a war because the military needs to achieve its aims:We're the cannon fodder, mate. They're sending us in to make sure the area's cleared.Warsaw became a staging post on the road to Moscow, and the local people were little more than cannon fodder.2 suffer used about people in any situation who are allowed to suffer in order for something else to succeed:Children have become cannon fodder to boost a school's image in the exam league tables.The problem is that police officers are society's cannon fodder. They are the ones dealing every day with the dangerous problems that society chooses to ignore.

cannon fodder

Troops that are deemed expendable and thus given the most dangerous assignments (in which they are likely to be killed by artillery fire). I refuse to be sent to the front lines as cannon fodder!

cannon fodder

COMMON

1. You call soldiers in a war cannon fodder when they are considered unimportant and are sent to fight in the most dangerous areas, where they are likely to be killed. The 55- to 65-year-olds were sent to the front as cannon-fodder. If you're a squaddie, you're regarded as cannon fodder.

2. You call people cannon fodder when they are made to do difficult, unpleasant, or dangerous tasks that their bosses do not want to do. The average member of parliament would change parties without hesitation, and is treated by his party leaders as cannon fodder. Note: Fodder is cheap food such as hay or straw that is used to feed animals.

ˈcannon fodder

large numbers of soldiers who are used in order to win a war, even though most of them are likely to be killed: Their lives were not considered important — they were just the cannon fodder.(figurative) The team had no intention of being cannon fodder when they played the champions, and were determined to win.

Fodder is food for horses and farm animals.

词组	cannon fodder
释义	Idiom cannon fodder soldiers who are not believed to be important and who are sent to fight in the most dangerous places where they are likely to die. Inexperienced troops were used as cannon fodder. cannon fodder noun infantry soldiers. Used with sympathy or derision by journalists, agitators and, occasionally, the troops UK, 1948 idiomcannon fodder1 army ordinary people, especially soldiers with a low rank in the army, navy etc, who are allowed to be killed or hurt during a war because the military needs to achieve its aims:We're the cannon fodder, mate. They're sending us in to make sure the area's cleared.Warsaw became a staging post on the road to Moscow, and the local people were little more than cannon fodder.2 suffer used about people in any situation who are allowed to suffer in order for something else to succeed:Children have become cannon fodder to boost a school's image in the exam league tables.The problem is that police officers are society's cannon fodder. They are the ones dealing every day with the dangerous problems that society chooses to ignore. cannon fodder Troops that are deemed expendable and thus given the most dangerous assignments (in which they are likely to be killed by artillery fire). I refuse to be sent to the front lines as cannon fodder! cannon fodder COMMON 1. You call soldiers in a war cannon fodder when they are considered unimportant and are sent to fight in the most dangerous areas, where they are likely to be killed. The 55- to 65-year-olds were sent to the front as cannon-fodder. If you're a squaddie, you're regarded as cannon fodder. 2. You call people cannon fodder when they are made to do difficult, unpleasant, or dangerous tasks that their bosses do not want to do. The average member of parliament would change parties without hesitation, and is treated by his party leaders as cannon fodder. Note: Fodder is cheap food such as hay or straw that is used to feed animals. ˈcannon fodder large numbers of soldiers who are used in order to win a war, even though most of them are likely to be killed: Their lives were not considered important — they were just the cannon fodder.(figurative) The team had no intention of being cannon fodder when they played the champions, and were determined to win. Fodder is food for horses and farm animals.
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