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

• I did two years national service.
  我曾在军队服役两年。
• 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。
• The Second Progress Report of the National Service Framework ( NSF) for Renal Services shows that diagnosis and management of CKD is better than ever before.
  第二个报道是由肾脏服务国际框架组织发表的，其结果显示CKD的诊断和处理比以前任何时候都要好得多。
• The police is not a national service.
  警察局不是全国性机构。
• I think we need a national service, he told the elite business leaders, academics, politicians and media who had assembled amid the lush mountains of Colorado. We need it at the conclusion of high school and university.
  我认为，我们需要在全国征兵，他对汇聚在科罗拉多州苍茫群山之间的商界领袖、学界人士、政客和媒体界等精英表示，我们应当让高中和大学毕业生服兵役。
• 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。
• 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。
• The following year though, I had to do my national service.
  不过，第二年我不得不去服兵役。
• Banks spent his national service in the Royal Navy.
  班克斯在皇家海军服过兵役。
• He then went into the Air Force for national service and spent two years in Malaya.
  他随后因服兵役参加皇家空军，并在马来西亚度过了两年时光。