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captain of [noun]
表示所属关系，后接组织或交通工具。
He is the captain of the ship.
他是这艘船的船长。
船长；舰长
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
船长；舰长
The person in command of a ship or other vessel.
He is the captain of the ship.
他是这艘船的船长。
首领或领导者。
A chief or leader.
船长或军衔为上尉的人的尊称
The honorific of a captain, especially a ship's captain or a person with the military rank of captain.
军衔在少校之下、中尉之上的军官
an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant
合法指挥船只或其他船只的人。
The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
The captain announced that the ship would arrive at the port in two hours.
船长宣布船将在两小时后抵达港口。
The police captain reviewed the case files before the meeting.
警长在会议前审阅了案件档案。
As a captain in the army, he leads a company of soldiers.
作为陆军上尉，他领导一个连的士兵。
表示所属关系，后接组织或交通工具。
He is the captain of the ship.
他是这艘船的船长。
作为头衔，用于姓名前。
Captain Smith gave the order.
史密斯船长下达了命令。
表示担任领导角色。
She served as captain for five years.
她担任了五年队长。
Not this
He is captain of the team.
Use this
He is the captain of the team.
英语中，可数名词单数形式前通常需要冠词（a/an/the）或限定词。这里“captain”是特指球队的队长，所以要用定冠词“the”。
Not this
The captain of the two ships are meeting.
Use this
The captains of the two ships are meeting.
主语为复数时，名词应用复数形式“captains”，以与复数动词“are”保持一致。汉语中无单复数变化，易遗漏复数标记。
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船长
The ship captain guided the vessel safely through the storm.
船长引导船只安全通过了风暴。
机长
The airline captain announced that we would be landing shortly.
机长宣布我们即将降落。
队长
As team captain, she motivates everyone to do their best.
作为队长，她激励每个人都尽力而为。
陆军上尉
The army captain led his platoon through the jungle.
陆军上尉带领他的排穿过了丛林。
警长
The police captain reviewed the case files.
警长审阅了案件档案。
船长室
The officer reported to the captain's cabin for a briefing.
军官到船长室参加简报。
工业巨头，产业领袖
He became a captain of industry after founding several successful companies.
在创办了几家成功的公司后，他成为了一位工业巨头。
船长的命令，绝对权威的指令
We had to follow the captain's orders without question.
我们不得不无条件服从船长的命令。
船长日志（尤指科幻作品中记录航行经历的日志）
The captain's log recorded the strange phenomenon they encountered.
船长日志记录了他们遇到的奇怪现象。
哦，船长！我的船长！
In the film Dead Poets Society, students stand on their desks and address their teacher as 'O Captain! my Captain!' as a sign of respect.
在电影《死亡诗社》中，学生们站在课桌上称呼他们的老师为“哦，船长！我的船长！”，以示尊敬。
现在我才是船长。
In the film Captain Phillips, the Somali pirate leader Abduwali Muse says this after taking control of the ship.
在电影《菲利普船长》中，索马里海盗头目阿布杜瓦利·穆萨在控制船只后说了这句话。
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Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
帽（cap）加十（ten）得captain，想象船长戴帽领十人。
register: mixed; contexts: military, aviation, sports, dining; note_zh: captain作为名词时，通常用于军事、航空、体育等团队中的领导角色，也可用于餐饮行业领班，语域根据场合有所变化，大多情况下为中性。
All listed words share the spelling ending '-ain' and have the stress on the first syllable. The unstressed final syllable in 'captain', 'certain', 'mountain', 'fountain', and 'curtain' is pronounced /tən/ or /tɪn/. However, 'bargain' ends with /ɡɪn/, so its final consonant differs. None of these words rhyme perfectly with 'captain' because the stressed vowel differs.
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