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soldiers / a force / an army / weapons / arms / military / warlike / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
soldier / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
(military) officers and soldiers / officers and men / (old) government troops
HSK 7-9
old soldier; veteran / veteran (sb who has a lot of experience in some domain)
parade guards (usually spaced out along parade routes) / example / model / pacesetter
large military unit / formation / corps / army
military camp / barracks
infantry / foot / infantryman / foot soldier
(military) branch of the armed forces
to levy troops / recruitment
to dispatch troops
Saving Private Ryan (1998 movie)
military strength / armed forces / troops
to review troops / military parade
people's militia / militia / militiaman
celestial troops and generals (idiom) / fig. superior forces
Ministry of War (in imperial China)
weaponry / weapons / arms
cavalry
soldier / large army / powerful army / (old) large-scale war
munitions factory
lit. military tactics on paper (idiom) / fig. theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice / armchair strategist / idle theorizing / cf Zhao Kuo 趙括|赵括 leading an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰|长平之战 in 260 BC
to serve in the army / to be a soldier
troops appearing suddenly (in a raid or ambush)
(military) mercenary / (sports) player hired from another country
elite troops
“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
artillery soldier / gunner
paratrooper
to lead troops
to reduce troop numbers / disarmament
to send troops
guard / bodyguard
individual soldier / (literary) isolated military unit, cut off from reinforcements
military service
army deserter
new (army) recruit
military leadership / military power
celestial soldier / (old) imperial troops / (Tw, jocular) clumsy army recruit / (more generally) bungler / screw-up
to recruit soldiers
sentinel
(bladed) weapons
enlisted sailor in navy
to drill troops / army training
a book on the art of war
soldiers at the city walls (idiom); fig. at a critical juncture
lit. every tree or bush an enemy soldier (idiom); fig. to panic and treat everyone as an enemy / to feel beleaguered
there can never be too much deception in war / in war nothing is too deceitful / all's fair in war
mutiny / (Tw) to be dumped by one's girlfriend while serving in the army
military police
to muster troops / (fig.) to gather forces
to meet on the battlefield (idiom)
ordinary soldier
private (army)
Hyōgo prefecture in the midwest of Japan's main island Honshū 本州
relief troops; reinforcements
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
to train troops
army service station / military depot
soldiers / troops
hidden troops / ambush
to hold back one's troops without moving (idiom); to bide one's time
(military) reinforcements
Qing troops; Manchu soldiers
to withdraw troops / to retreat
see 虎符
troops and horses / military forces
figurines of warriors and horses buried with the dead / Terracotta Army (historic site)
delaying tactics; stalling; measures to stave off an attack; stratagem to win a respite
to send troops
weapons / arms / fighting / war
to engage in wars of aggression at will (idiom) / militaristic / bellicose
lit. no blood on the men's swords (idiom); fig. an effortless victory
lit. peaceful measures before using force (idiom) / fig. diplomacy before violence; jaw-jaw is better than war-war
shrimp soldiers and crab generals (in mythology or popular fiction, the army of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea) / useless troops (idiom)
lit. short-weaponed soldiery fight one another (idiom); fierce hand-to-hand infantry combat / to fight at close quarters
(literary) to raise an army; to dispatch troops
pay and provisions for soldiers
manpower resources (for military service) / sources of troops
soldiers / troops
lit. strong soldiers and sturdy horses (idiom) / fig. a well-trained and powerful army
to bring the entire nation to arms (idiom)
to move an army and send a general (idiom); to deploy an army / to send a team on a task
to beat the gong to recall troops (idiom); to order a retreat
to reinforce / to increase troop numbers / reinforcements / extra troops
lit. an arrogant army is bound to lose (idiom) / fig. pride goes before a fall
soldiers munity and troops rebel (idiom); turmoil and chaos of war
army riffraff / army ruffian / soldier of fortune
lit. straggling and disbanded soldiers (idiom); fig. disorganized uncoordinated action
an army burning with righteous indignation is bound to win (idiom)
arms / weapons
ruined army, defeated general (idiom); scattered remnants
to lead military operations with extraordinary skill
troops deployed to mislead the enemy
bugler / trumpeter (military)
ravaged by successive wars / war-torn / war-ridden
in a state of war
warship
elite soldiers, ample provisions (idiom); well-prepared forces / preparations for war are in an advanced state
to call for reinforcements / to bring in troops

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