| | there can never be too much deception in war / in war nothing is too deceitful / all's fair in war | |
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| | ordinary soldier | |
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| | art of war / military strategy and tactics | |
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| | to cease fire / armistice / rested troops | |
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| | troops in defeat like a landslide (idiom); a beaten army in total collapse | |
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| | soldier ant / dinergate | |
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| | “Art of War”, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书, written by Sun Tzu 孫子|孙子 | |
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| | people's militia / militia / militiaman | |
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| | enlisted sailor in navy | |
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| | the School of the Military, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家|诸子百家 of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC) | |
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| | military strategist in ancient China / military commander / soldier | |
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| | new (army) recruit | |
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| | lit. short-weaponed soldiery fight one another (idiom); fierce hand-to-hand infantry combat / to fight at close quarters | |
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| | lit. no blood on the men's swords (idiom); fig. an effortless victory | |
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| | to meet on the battlefield (idiom) | |
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| | military strength / armed forces / troops | |
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| | lit. strong soldiers and sturdy horses (idiom) / fig. a well-trained and powerful army | |
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| | to send troops | |
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| | munitions factory | |
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| | sentinel | |
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| | military leadership / military power | |
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| | private (army) | |
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| | lit. rich country, strong army (idiom); slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times / Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei) | |
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| | troops | |
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| | artillery soldier / gunner | |
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| | military police | |
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| | lit. train an army for a thousand days to use it for one morning (idiom) / fig. extensive preparation eventually pays off | |
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| | paratroopers | |
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| | same as 綠營|绿营, Green standard army, standing infantry during Qing dynasty, originally formed from Ming and other Chinese army units | |
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| | massive military force | |
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| | (military) officers and soldiers / officers and men / (old) government troops | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to serve in the army / to be a soldier | |
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| | war-gaming; simulation of a military operation | |
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| | lit. peaceful measures before using force (idiom) / fig. diplomacy before violence; jaw-jaw is better than war-war | |
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| | commonplace in military operations (idiom) | |
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| | (military) messenger / orderly | |
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| | Qing troops; Manchu soldiers | |
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| | (bladed) weapons | |
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| | a book on the art of war | |
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| | to dispatch troops | |
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| | to retreat / to withdraw troops / to recall troops / fig. to finish work / to wind up / to call it a day / used with negatives: the task is far from over | |
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| | (coll.) soldier boy | |
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| | Hyōgo prefecture in the midwest of Japan's main island Honshū 本州 | |
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| | to reinforce / to increase troop numbers / reinforcements / extra troops | |
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| | Saving Private Ryan (1998 movie) | |
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| | arms and confusion (idiom); turmoil of war | |
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| | figurines of warriors and horses buried with the dead / Terracotta Army (historic site) | |
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| | to hold back one's troops without moving (idiom); to bide one's time | |
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| | to withdraw troops / to retreat | |
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| | elite troops | |
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| | (military) branch of the armed forces | |
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| | low-ranking soldier; (by extension) low-level employee | |
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| | commando / special forces soldier | |
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| | large military unit / formation / corps / army | |
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| | an army burning with righteous indignation is bound to win (idiom) | |
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| | army orderly | |
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| | soldiers at the city walls (idiom); fig. at a critical juncture | |
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| | military engineer | |
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| | paratrooper | |
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| | strong soldiers / make the military powerful (political slogan) | |
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| | military camp / barracks | |
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| | military police corps | |
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| | lit. straggling and disbanded soldiers (idiom); fig. disorganized uncoordinated action | |
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| | military parade | |
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| | soldiers / a force / an army / weapons / arms / military / warlike / CL: 個|个 | HSK 4 |
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| | (military) mercenary / (sports) player hired from another country | |
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| | man-of-war / naval vessel / warship | |
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| | to bring the entire nation to arms (idiom) | |
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| | Sun Bin's "The Art of War" | |
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| | guard / garrison soldier | |
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| | to review troops / military parade | |
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| | to lead military operations with extraordinary skill | |
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| | before the troops move, fodder and provisions go first (idiom); logistics comes before military maneuvers / an army marches on its stomach | |
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| | soldiers / troops | |
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| | lit. speed is a crucial asset in war (idiom) / fig. swift and resolute (in doing sth) | |
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| | troops appearing suddenly (in a raid or ambush) | |
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| | to dispatch an army / to send troops | |
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| | a scout / spy | |
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| | warship | |
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| | lit. every tree or bush an enemy soldier (idiom); fig. to panic and treat everyone as an enemy / to feel beleaguered | |
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| | lit. an arrogant army is bound to lose (idiom) / fig. pride goes before a fall | |
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| | parade guards (usually spaced out along parade routes) / example / model / pacesetter | |
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| | to reduce troop numbers / disarmament | |
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| | Memorial Day (American holiday) | |
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| | in a state of war | |
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| | to lead troops | |
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| | volunteer soldier / CL: 名 | |
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| | stretcher bearer (military) | |
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| | to drill troops / army training | |
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| | Hyōgo prefecture in the midwest of Japan's main island Honshū 本州 | |
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| | soldiers / troops | |
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| | PLA military personnel who specialize in literary or artistic pursuits | |
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| | infantry / foot / infantryman / foot soldier | |
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| | manpower resources (for military service) / sources of troops | |
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| | lit. Train an army for a thousand days to use it for an hour. (idiom); fig. extensive preparation eventually pays off | |
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| | individual soldier / (literary) isolated military unit, cut off from reinforcements | |
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| | foxhole (military) | |
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| | to dismiss military hierarchy using wine cups / cf Song founding Emperor Song Taizu 宋太祖 holds a banquet in 961 and persuades his senior army commanders to go home to their provinces | |
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