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

• My only diploma was as a machine lathe operator, from a course at the national service for industry.
  我唯一的文凭是机床操作员，来自于“国家工业服务”的一个课程。
• 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。
• In britain, national service was abolished in1962.
  英国在1962年废除了兵役。
• 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。
• Their non-profit, our time, is trying to galvanize support for the authorization and funding of one million additional jobs in the National Service ( primarily AmeriCorps).
  OURTIME是一家非营利机构，为了增加一百万个国民服务工作岗位（主要是美国志愿队），该机构目前正在努力寻求官方支持和资金援助。
• There had also been very little national service coordination of stroke and TIA services until now.
  而且，直到现在也极少有关于治疗、护理脑卒中和TIA的国民服务协作组织。
• Some people think that only by taking up very high jobs, you are doing something important or you are doing national service.
  一些人认为那仅仅依靠非常高的职位的人，那些做很重要的事情或者做国家服务的人。
• As it is, the Malay language is now used only in singing the national anthem and in giving commands during military training in national service.
  马来文虽然是新加坡的国语，却只在唱国歌和军事训练发施号令时才被应用。
• 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。