campaign，battle ；
[例句] 当我们下定决心面对世界上所有事物，包括荆棘难题，就已经打赢了半场战役。 We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.
[例句] 这场战役应该是速战速决，基本没什么伤亡。 The campaign would be short and relatively bloodless.
active service，active duty，on active service，on active duty ；
[例句] 该国有将近400万现役士兵。 There are nearly four million soldiers under arms in this country.
[例句] 现役部队 troops on active service
be on active service，enlist in the army，take service，do corvée labour，escuage ；
[例句] 1944年4月他在战时服役中阵亡。 In April 1944 he was killed on active service.
[例句] 他已经安心在预备役部队服役。 He has buckled down to work in the reserves.
retire or be released from military service，out of commission，retire ；
[例句] 退役将军和后座议员的智慧结合在一起。 The wisdom of the retired generals and backbench MPs conjoins.
[例句] 作为削减国防开支的一部分，英国皇家海军舰艇“厌战”号宣布退役。 HMS Warspite was decommissioned as part of defence cuts.
enslave，keep in bondage，bond service，bondage，enslavement ；
(domestic) servant，call boy，callboy，manservant ；
[例句] 过了1小时3刻钟,仆役回来了. In about an hour and three - quarters the boy returned.
[例句] 仆役长把访客领进会客室. The butler ushered the visitor into the drawing room.
hard labour，penal servitude，donkeywork ；
[例句] 他被判处两年的苦役. He was sentenced to two years'hard labour.
[例句] 在丛林地带，儿童被用作开采金矿的苦役。 The children were used as slave labour in gold mines in the jungle.
serve in the army，perform military service，with the colours ；
[例句] 他炫耀自己通过装病来逃避服兵役。 He boasts of dodging military service by feigning illness.
[例句] 他逃到了哥斯达黎加以逃避服兵役。 He fled to Costa Rica to avoid military service.
miscellaneous affairs，bottle washer，factotum，fatigue ；
[例句] 许多节省劳力的设备使妇女摆脱掉乏味的厨房杂役. Labor - saving devices have emancipated women from kitchen drudgery.
[例句] 劳务杂役分派给士兵的一年一次或两次的杂役(如打扫军营) Manual or menial labor, such as barracks cleaning, assigned to soldiers.
[军] deferment (of service) ；
[例句] 他就不再以军工生产人员为由申请缓役了. He does not try for an exemption because he is a war worker.
[旧] （捕快） constables，policemen ；
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[例句] 历史上有由贱役一跃而为王者的. History tells of slaves who rose to the purple.
decommissioning ；
decommission ；
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