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单词 conscript
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Definition of conscript in English:

conscript

verb kənˈskrɪptkənˈskrɪpt
[with object]
  • Enlist (someone) compulsorily, typically into the armed services.

    (强制)征召,征募(某人,尤指服兵役)

    they were conscripted into the army

    他们被征召入伍。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In all some two million men were conscripted between 1800 and 1814.
    • But conscripting people with medical skills is just a start.
    • He had an automatic gun on him that had jammed but to make his execution certain the authorities immediately conscripted him and had him tried by a military court.
    • The first shows soldiers being conscripted during wartime as victims on an army production line.
    • The country's military junta has come under fire for decades for conscripting boys to the lower ranks of the military as porters and mine carriers.
    • Citizens were conscripted from more heavily populated parts of the empire.
    • I was right of course and probably some of their big brothers were conscripted and killed.
    • In the Soviet Union, where millions of women were conscripted, they were just as aggressive and just as brutalised by the experience as the men.
    • Poland was overrun and he was conscripted into the Red Army.
    • He is conscripted into a nasty little private army, escapes, finds the uniform of a US mail man, and becomes a symbol of hope.
    • American and German governments even considered conscripting women to work for the war economies but found such action unnecessary.
    • If you were conscripted as a common soldier some two hundred years ago, you had to get permission to get married.
    • He was conscripted in 1939 but, because he was blind in his right eye, he was assigned to the medical corps.
    • In 1915 he was conscripted, but was regarded as unsuitable for combat duties and assigned to the postal and meteorological services.
    • As in any situation where young and inexperienced people are conscripted into military duty, you will find a layer who question their actions.
    • Forcible conscription of adults and children continued, although children were conscripted to a lesser extent than in the previous year.
    • They bombed granaries and rural villages, destroyed crops and irrigation systems, mined pastures and fields, destroyed herds and launched sweeps through rural areas - conscripting young men and destroying the infrastructure.
    • Beginning in 1753, thousands of Canadians were conscripted each year into the militia, draining labour away from agriculture.
    • Back when the sailors were conscripted, living conditions were very poor.
    • At 18, shortly before the end of the Second World War, he was conscripted into the army.
    Synonyms
    call up, enlist, recruit, mobilize, raise, muster
    US draft
    historical press, impress
    archaic levy
noun ˈkɒnskrɪptˈkɑnˌskrɪpt
  • A person enlisted compulsorily.

    被征召者

    army conscripts
    as modifier conscript troops
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's a conscript army, and the families of the soldiers are suffering more each year.
    • Why the officer corps of the army or the conscript regular soldiers were all fired is inexplicable.
    • The new conscript army must have been rather unattractive for the samurai.
    • Most armies staffed with conscripts and poorly trained and motivated officers will likewise disappear if hit hard enough.
    • It is no coincidence that the public debate accompanies the transformation of the French military from a conscript force into a professional modern army.
    • It would allow Army conscripts who joined the military while in college to earn up to nine university course credits per year.
    • He had heard stories of deserting conscripts from the Army crossing into the hands of the revolution.
    • Military conscripts who complete military service within a single period are assigned to special standby units after basic training and are immediately available.
    • They had adopted the advantages of the new military system encapsulated in the popular conscript army, as Russia, Austria, and, particularly, Prussia undertook military reforms in response to battlefield defeat.
    • Constant readiness units manned by conscripts and those manned by conscripts plus contract soldiers are trained in accordance with a five-month program.
    • It means that reserve troops, conscripts who have served out their compulsory-service term, would receive more recalls for training in the future.
    • A peasant conscript army was established, with weapons being the possessions of the government.
    • The speed with which it had been able to assemble and deploy such a conscript army conferred upon the German Confederation an advantage over the French, who struggled to get a smaller army into the field over a longer period of time.
    • This archive consists of hundreds of images of naked men, presumably fresh conscripts and army recruits, taken for an unknown kind of ethnographic exercise.
    • But in a conscript army assembled by a dictatorship, the line between civilian and soldier gets blurred, at least by my calculation.
    • At present, barely half - 134,000 of 323,000 soldiers - are conscripts completing their military service.
    • This was the period when Napoleon was desperately trying to call up conscripts for his armies as he attempted to replenish the troops lost in the fighting.
    • A conscript army was considered the corollary of a democratic society.
    • Nor is a conscript army without advantages both for the soldiers and the institution.
    • To some extent migrant labour is performing the role once played by military service when ex-army conscripts returned to the villages with new skills and ambitions.
    Synonyms
    impressed man, recruit
    US draftee, enlisted man

Origin

Late 18th century (as a noun): from French conscrit, from Latin conscriptus, past participle of conscribere 'enrol'. The verb is a back-formation from conscription.

Rhymes

crypt, encrypt, harelipped, hipped, script, unequipped, unwhipped

Definition of conscript in US English:

conscript

verbkənˈskrɪptkənˈskript
[with object]
  • Enlist (someone) compulsorily, typically into the armed services.

    (强制)征召,征募(某人,尤指服兵役)

    they were conscripted into the army

    他们被征召入伍。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He was conscripted in 1939 but, because he was blind in his right eye, he was assigned to the medical corps.
    • He had an automatic gun on him that had jammed but to make his execution certain the authorities immediately conscripted him and had him tried by a military court.
    • As in any situation where young and inexperienced people are conscripted into military duty, you will find a layer who question their actions.
    • In the Soviet Union, where millions of women were conscripted, they were just as aggressive and just as brutalised by the experience as the men.
    • Beginning in 1753, thousands of Canadians were conscripted each year into the militia, draining labour away from agriculture.
    • The first shows soldiers being conscripted during wartime as victims on an army production line.
    • Poland was overrun and he was conscripted into the Red Army.
    • In all some two million men were conscripted between 1800 and 1814.
    • In 1915 he was conscripted, but was regarded as unsuitable for combat duties and assigned to the postal and meteorological services.
    • If you were conscripted as a common soldier some two hundred years ago, you had to get permission to get married.
    • The country's military junta has come under fire for decades for conscripting boys to the lower ranks of the military as porters and mine carriers.
    • Citizens were conscripted from more heavily populated parts of the empire.
    • He is conscripted into a nasty little private army, escapes, finds the uniform of a US mail man, and becomes a symbol of hope.
    • American and German governments even considered conscripting women to work for the war economies but found such action unnecessary.
    • Forcible conscription of adults and children continued, although children were conscripted to a lesser extent than in the previous year.
    • Back when the sailors were conscripted, living conditions were very poor.
    • I was right of course and probably some of their big brothers were conscripted and killed.
    • At 18, shortly before the end of the Second World War, he was conscripted into the army.
    • They bombed granaries and rural villages, destroyed crops and irrigation systems, mined pastures and fields, destroyed herds and launched sweeps through rural areas - conscripting young men and destroying the infrastructure.
    • But conscripting people with medical skills is just a start.
    Synonyms
    call up, enlist, recruit, mobilize, raise, muster
nounˈkɑnˌskrɪptˈkänˌskript
  • A person enlisted compulsorily.

    被征召者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It would allow Army conscripts who joined the military while in college to earn up to nine university course credits per year.
    • A peasant conscript army was established, with weapons being the possessions of the government.
    • Constant readiness units manned by conscripts and those manned by conscripts plus contract soldiers are trained in accordance with a five-month program.
    • This archive consists of hundreds of images of naked men, presumably fresh conscripts and army recruits, taken for an unknown kind of ethnographic exercise.
    • It's a conscript army, and the families of the soldiers are suffering more each year.
    • But in a conscript army assembled by a dictatorship, the line between civilian and soldier gets blurred, at least by my calculation.
    • The new conscript army must have been rather unattractive for the samurai.
    • Nor is a conscript army without advantages both for the soldiers and the institution.
    • It is no coincidence that the public debate accompanies the transformation of the French military from a conscript force into a professional modern army.
    • The speed with which it had been able to assemble and deploy such a conscript army conferred upon the German Confederation an advantage over the French, who struggled to get a smaller army into the field over a longer period of time.
    • A conscript army was considered the corollary of a democratic society.
    • It means that reserve troops, conscripts who have served out their compulsory-service term, would receive more recalls for training in the future.
    • At present, barely half - 134,000 of 323,000 soldiers - are conscripts completing their military service.
    • They had adopted the advantages of the new military system encapsulated in the popular conscript army, as Russia, Austria, and, particularly, Prussia undertook military reforms in response to battlefield defeat.
    • To some extent migrant labour is performing the role once played by military service when ex-army conscripts returned to the villages with new skills and ambitions.
    • Most armies staffed with conscripts and poorly trained and motivated officers will likewise disappear if hit hard enough.
    • Military conscripts who complete military service within a single period are assigned to special standby units after basic training and are immediately available.
    • This was the period when Napoleon was desperately trying to call up conscripts for his armies as he attempted to replenish the troops lost in the fighting.
    • Why the officer corps of the army or the conscript regular soldiers were all fired is inexplicable.
    • He had heard stories of deserting conscripts from the Army crossing into the hands of the revolution.
    Synonyms
    impressed man, recruit

Origin

Late 18th century (as a noun): from French conscrit, from Latin conscriptus, past participle of conscribere ‘enroll’. The verb is a back-formation from conscription.

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