| 词汇 | conscript |
| 释义 | conscript verb[ T ] uk /kənˈskrɪpt/ us /kənˈskrɪpt/(US alsodraft) to force someone to serve in an army or one of a country's armed forces: 征召，招募 be conscripted intoHe was conscripted into the army at the age of 18.他18岁被征召入伍。 Until National Service came to an end in about 1960, some of those who refused to be conscripted were sent to prison. The boys I met there, some as young as 6, had been conscripted - kidnapped is the more accurate term - by a rebel army. Declining populations cause enormous problems for conscripting a healthy military. Joining or leaving the army absent without leave anti-draft buy buy someone out call call someone up cashier commission conscription desert deserter desertion draft draft dodger enlist enlistment join up re-enlist re-enlistment re-up Related wordconscription conscript noun[ C ] uk /ˈkɒn.skript/ us /ˈkɑːn.skript/(US alsodraftee) a person who has been forced to serve in an army or in one of a country's armed forces: Over half the army was composed of conscripts. Compare volunteernoun We want professional soldiers, not unmotivated, resistant conscripts. About 40,000 regular troops, 65,000 paramilitary troops and 35,000 conscripts have been put on high alert to confront any emergency near the border. The regime was still plying the streets of the capital to round up young men as conscripts. Soldiers & people who fight in wars anti-guerrilla Anzac berserker capability cavalryman citizen soldier comrade ex-serviceman foot soldier headhunter paramilitary raider recruit scout shogun skirmisher soldier of fortune unsoldierly vassal war party conscript adjective[ before noun ] uk /ˈkɒn.skript/ us /ˈkɑːn.skript/ relating to or consisting of people who are forced to serve in an army or in one of a country's armed forces: a conscript army Theoretically, the alliance has millions of conscript troops at its disposal. In Vietnam, we had a conscript military. Joining or leaving the army absent without leave anti-draft buy buy someone out call call someone up cashier commission conscription desert deserter desertion draft draft dodger enlist enlistment join up re-enlist re-enlistment re-up conscript | American Dictionaryconscript verb[ T ] us/kənˈskrɪpt/ to force someone to work as a member of a group: Soldiers conscripted factory workers to build a wall around the city. conscriptionnoun[ U ]us/kənˈskrɪp·ʃən/ He emigrated from Germany in the 1850s to avoid conscription into the army. conscript noun[ C ] us/'kɑnˌskript/ someone who is forced to work as a member of a group: We were volunteers, not conscripts. Examples of conscriptconscript The conscripts were more prone to flee than to fight. The second of these defined a household as a tax unit : those collectively responsible for tax payments and feudal dues (including the provision of conscripts). I wanted government policy to ensure that sterling maintained confidence in the market without support conscripted under an exchange rate mechanism. Despite the fact that a war may be unjust, the state nevertheless retains its right to conscript young men and women into military service. Following the demobilization of the wartime conscript army most regular regimental soldiers returned to the cosy familiarities of colonial soldiering. How, for example, do the technical practices or styles required by musical works conscript musically performing bodies? Overall, less than half of those conscripted returned to their towns and villages. Below them were the standbys, mainly captives and conscripts, followed by the under-age combatants. They have described how different modalities of veneration have been conscripted for this task. There existed, of course, those desperate enough to earn a living by selling themselves as substitute conscripts (mai zhuangding). In order to defuse this concern one might start by comparing the conscript and the teenager with the footballers. I shall take the case of the conscript first. One of the pools consisted of 13 human sera drawn from conscripts in the study population immediately prior to the influenza vaccination in autumn 1998. The state needed obedient and disciplined subjects, and the prison became-alongside the school, the conscript army, and the psychiatric hospital-a disciplining institution. The policy did not bring the lasting creation of a conscript army. See all examples of conscript These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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