A body of people selected or conscripted. 被选出或征召服役的一群人
He's a conscript. 他是一名应征士兵。
The dictator proposed to conscript both capital and labor. 独裁者计划徵召资金和劳工。
conscript
[ noun ]
someone who is drafted into military service
<noun.person> [ verb ]
enroll into service compulsorily
<verb.competition> The men were conscripted
Conscript \Con"script\, a. [L. conscriptus, p. p. of conscribere to write together, to enroll; con- + scribere to write. See {Scribe}.] Enrolled; written; registered.
{Conscript fathers} (Rom. Antiq.), the senators of ancient Rome. When certain new senators were first enrolled with the ``fathers'' the body was called Patres et Conscripti; afterward all were called Patres conscripti.
Conscript \Con"script\, n. One taken by lot, or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor.
Conscript \Con*script"\, v. t. To enroll, by compulsion, for military service.
It said Noorte Haal (Voice of Youth), journal of the Komsomol Youth Communist League in Estonia, published an article on March 21 "about the appalling experiences in the Soviet army" of "Mati," a young Estonian conscript.
Afghanistan's conscript army shows signs of collapse and is of little use for major operations, he said, adding that government forces generally are confined to cities and large towns, leaving the countryside to the guerrillas.
Here, the role of the security forces could become crucial: for while the largely conscript army has no tradition of taking power, the generals might find their tenuous commitment to political reform weakened, and drag their feet over Codesa.
Then the conscript Afghan army rallied and the campaign settled into stalemate.
Ballad Of A Soldier is Chukhrai's famous Russian story (1959) about a young conscript who wins a brief home leave (12.10 BBC2).
He said a general earns about $1,053 a month and a conscript is paid about $5 a month.
The last Soviet troops left Kabul aboard military transport planes late Tuesday, leaving defense of besieged capital to the conscript Afghan army and Najib's security forces.
The five were arrested last April after Greek-speaking gunmen killed two Albanian soldiers in a conscript camp near the border.
Turkish newspapers have become almost ghoulish in their profiles of the young conscript casualties in the Kurdish east, bringing home to many Turks a conflict which had until recently seemed quite remote.
The Korean War remembered vividly by the 1950s generation is only a textbook to today's Korean soldier, an independent, consumer-oriented conscript who thinks Korea is No. 1 and is generally indifferent toward the United States.
The military burden will continue to drain public finances for many years to come, as Gen Pinochet's conscript army is unlikely to rethink its role in Chile's new democracy until the 74-year-old commander-in-chief retires in 1998.
Using Cambodian conscript labor, the Vietnamese army has for some time been building Southeast Asia's answer to the Berlin Wall, a deep trench and barbed-wire fence to thwart the resistance and make it harder for Cambodians to escape.