national service

英 [ˌnæʃnəl ˈsɜːvɪs]

美 [ˌnæʃnəl ˈsɜːrvɪs]

n.  兵役

Collins.1

牛津词典

noun

• 兵役
  the system in some countries in which young people have to do military training for a period of time
  1. to do your national service
     服兵役

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 国民兵役
  National serviceis service in the armed forces, which young people in certain countries have to do by law.
  1. Banks spent his national service in the Royal Navy.
     班克斯在皇家海军服过兵役。

in AM, use 美国英语用 selective service

英英释义

noun

• compulsory service in the military during peacetime

双语例句

• Banks spent his national service in the Royal Navy.
  班克斯在皇家海军服过兵役。
• In previous generations, children often left school at14 or16, started work, married, went to war or took part in National Service, all before the old age of majority of21.
  上辈人通常14或16岁离开学校、开始工作、结婚、参战或是成为为国家服务的一份子，而这一过程都在21岁之前完成。
• Have you completed your national service?
  您是否已完成国民服役？
• I quickly realized, however, that the first three months of my two-year national service would be no laughing matter.
  然而我很快意识到我两年兵役的前三个月可不是什么能笑的出来的事。
• In britain, national service was abolished in1962.
  英国在1962年废除了兵役。
• It was built to commemorate Washington's national service.
  这是为了纪念华盛顿的国家服务。
• The police is not a national service.
  警察局不是全国性机构。
• Sport is generally considered a form of national service, and athletes who retire from the system are described using the same word, tuiyi, as for a demobilised soldier.
  体育运动通常被看作兵役的一种形式，人们用“退役”来描述退出体育体制的运动员，就像退伍的军人一样。
• They go on to national service.
  他们会去服兵役。
• A minister without portfolio the best doctors would stay resentfully out of the national service, refusing to become the minions of a Minister.
  最好医生愤恨地不去参加兵役，拒绝做部长大臣们的奴才。