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Battle of Mt Mengliang in Shandong of 1947 between the Nationalists and Communists
(of military personnel or athletes) to retire / (of outdated equipment) to be decommissioned
HSK 7-9
to use (an animal or servant) / working (animal) / (beast) of burden / causative form of verbs (esp. in grammar of Japanese, Korean etc)
detention
Battle of Midway, June 1942
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *役* | 役* | *役
forced labor / corvée / obligatory task / military service / to use as servant / to enserf / servant (old) / war / campaign / battle
to put to work (servant or animal) / to make use of for labor
Huaihai Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War, considered the determining battle of the war
military campaign
forced labor / corvée (labor required of a serf) / animal labor
to serve in the army / in active service
Battle of Britain (Jul-Oct 1940)
to accomplish the whole task at one stroke (idiom)
servant
(military) active duty / (sports) currently active (player, athlete etc)
odd jobs / part-time worker
Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), decisive battle of Second World War and one of the bloodiest battles in history, when the Germans failed to take Stalingrad, were then trapped and destroyed by Soviet forces
to enslave
draft animals / beasts of burden
bailiff of feudal yamen
to serve in the army
forced labor / corvée / penal servitude
to order (sb) about / (by extension) to put to use
war of 1402 between successors of the first Ming Emperor
reserve troops
forced labor / corvee
Pingjin Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War
military service
chameleon
Liaoshen Campaign (Sep-Nov 1948), the first of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War
Battle of Guadalcanal (August 1942 – February 1943), a pivotal campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II
males eligible for military service / draftee / abbr. for 役齡男子|役龄男子
one person taking on two tasks simultaneously
forced labor of feudal tenant (corvée) / bailiff of feudal yamen
enlistment age
corvee / laborer
draft animal / beast of burden
farm work


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