a young person who is training to become an officer in the police or armed forces警官（或军官）学员；警官（或军官）候补生- army cadets陆军军校学员
- The military academy trains up to 2 000 officer cadets each year.该军官学校每年可培养多达 2,000 名士官生。
Topics Law and justicec2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveverb + cadetcadet + verbcadet + nounSee full entry Word Originearly 17th cent. (originally in the sense of a younger son or daughter): from French, from Gascon dialect capdet, a diminutive based on Latin caput ‘head’. The notion “little head” or “inferior head” gave rise to that of ‘younger, junior’.