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作战

zuò zhàn

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 作戰

作战 (zuò zhàn) means "combat; to fight". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 作战 means

1. combat
2. to fight

The characters in 作战

• 作zuòto do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign
• 战zhànto fight; fight; war

Example sentences

• Ziri穿上了作战靴。
  Ziri wore combat boots.
• 约阿夫行动是以色列独立战争中的一次作战行动。
  Yuē ā fū xíngdòng shìyǐ sè liè dúlìzhànzhēng zhōng de yīcì zuòzhàn xíngdòng.
  Operation Yoav was a military operation carried out by Israel in its war for independence.
• 民兵雕像是为了纪念独立战争中英勇作战的士兵。
  The statue of the Minute Man commemorates the valiant soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War.
• 士兵作战时毫无畏缩，但到了最后还是不得不投降。
  Shìbīng zuòzhàn shí háowú wèisuō, dàn dào le zuì hòu háishi bùdébù tóuxiáng.
  The soldiers fought valiantly, but finally they had to give in.
• 首先他们嘲笑你，其次他们和你作战，然后你赢了。
  First they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win.
• 普丁正在从黎巴嫩难民营中招募巴勒斯坦难民前往乌克兰为他作战；显然他自己的士兵不够强悍。
  Putin is plucking Palestinian refugees from Lebanese camps to go fight for him in Ukraine; apparently his own soldiers aren't tough enough.

Words containing 作战

• 并肩作战bìng jiān zuò zhàn(idiom) to fight side by side; (by extension) to join forces

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