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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
military service
to serve in the army / to be a soldier
cavalry
lit. an arrogant army is bound to lose (idiom) / fig. pride goes before a fall
(military) mercenary / (sports) player hired from another country
large military unit / formation / corps / army
weaponry / weapons / arms
Qing troops; Manchu soldiers
military police
infantry / foot / infantryman / foot soldier
new (army) recruit
(military) branch of the armed forces
troops appearing suddenly (in a raid or ambush)
to work vaguely then retreat (idiom); sloppy and half-hearted / half-baked
lit. straggling and disbanded soldiers (idiom); fig. disorganized uncoordinated action
munitions factory
celestial soldier / (old) imperial troops / (Tw, jocular) clumsy army recruit / (more generally) bungler / screw-up
military strength / armed forces / troops
mutiny / (Tw) to be dumped by one's girlfriend while serving in the army
elite troops
guard / bodyguard
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)
military strategist in ancient China / military commander / soldier
to hold back one's troops without moving (idiom); to bide one's time
to dispatch an army / to send troops
to levy troops / recruitment
to review troops / military parade
military leadership / military power
soldiers munity and troops rebel (idiom); turmoil and chaos of war
to serve in the army
lit. to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom) / fig. to raise an army; to recruit new staff
to drill troops / army training
elite soldiers, ample provisions (idiom); well-prepared forces / preparations for war are in an advanced state
military camp / barracks
delaying tactics; stalling; measures to stave off an attack; stratagem to win a respite
troops in defeat like a landslide (idiom); a beaten army in total collapse
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
a scout / spy
soldiers at the city walls (idiom); fig. at a critical juncture
underworld soldier; ghost soldier
(coll.) soldier boy
parade guards (usually spaced out along parade routes) / example / model / pacesetter
to engage in wars of aggression at will (idiom) / militaristic / bellicose
to move an army and send a general (idiom); to deploy an army / to send a team on a task
to deploy troops / to mass troops
to meet on the battlefield (idiom)
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
(military) messenger / orderly
to cease fire / armistice / rested troops
celestial troops and generals (idiom) / fig. superior forces
lit. frontline troops / leader / trailblazer / pacesetter
paratroopers
ruined army, defeated general (idiom); scattered remnants
the military revolt of 960 that led Zhao Kuangyin 趙匡胤|赵匡胤 to found the Song dynasty
military parade
there can never be too much deception in war / in war nothing is too deceitful / all's fair in war
army orderly
military engineer
soldier ant / dinergate
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)
workers, peasants, and soldiers / the proletariat
art of war / military strategy and tactics
army deserter
to train troops
lit. peaceful measures before using force (idiom) / fig. diplomacy before violence; jaw-jaw is better than war-war
volunteer soldier / CL:
to dispatch troops
to send troops
a book on the art of war
lit. speed is a crucial asset in war (idiom) / fig. swift and resolute (in doing sth)
to muster troops / (fig.) to gather forces
sentinel
to lead troops
confusion of war / turmoil of war
Hyōgo prefecture in the midwest of Japan's main island Honshū 本州
military police corps
routed troops; defeated and dispersed troops
lit. strong soldiers and sturdy horses (idiom) / fig. a well-trained and powerful army
massive military force
old soldier; veteran / veteran (sb who has a lot of experience in some domain)
(literary) to raise an army; to dispatch troops
Red Guards (Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976)
enlisted sailor in navy
prosperous country with military might
pay and provisions for soldiers
shrimp soldiers and crab generals (in mythology or popular fiction, the army of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea) / useless troops (idiom)
to beat the gong to recall troops (idiom); to order a retreat
soldier / large army / powerful army / (old) large-scale war
ravaged by successive wars / war-torn / war-ridden
warship
Ministry of War (in imperial China)
relief troops; reinforcements
there are no poor soldiers under a good general (idiom)
to send troops
troops and horses / military forces
commonplace in military operations (idiom)
labor conscripted to support the military

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