C1 level vocab

referendum

trưng cầu dân ý

imperialism

chủ nghĩa đế quốc

imperialist regime

chế độ đế quốc

blatantly

một cách trắng trợn

rig

dựng, lắp ráp thiết bị: they rigged the stage for the concert; dàn xếp, dàn dựng (gian lận): they rigged the contest, the referendum was blatantly rigged.

insurgent

quân nổi dậy

come to ahead

đạt tới đỉnh điểm (reach the critical or decisive point, esp. in a conflict or problem): tension between 2 countries came to ahead last week; their marriage problem finally came to ahead

gulf of tonkin

vịnh Bắc Bộ

full-scale

toàn diện, quy mô lớn: full-scale war, they lauched a full-scale investigation to the fraud

conventional victory

chiến thắng theo lối đánh thông thường/truyền thống (by traditional battlefield tactics): the army is aiming for a conventianl victiory without escalating to nuclear weapon

from the outset

ngay từ đầu: from the outset of war; right from outset

national liberation front

mặt trận giải phóng dân tộc

wage (v)

phát động: wage the war; tiến hành: wage a campaign; tham gia: wage a battle

War of attrition

Chiến tranh tiêu hao, chiến tranh kéo dài làm hao mòn lực lượng

free fire zone

khu vực tự do bắn súng

deployment

triển khai: the army began deployment to the border; the deployment of new software will improve the efficency

in one's grasp

trong tầm tay: the victory is in your grasp;

be/become hardened to sth

trở nên chai lì với, vô cảm, quen với: he became hardened to the horrors of war, she's hardened to criticism now

fall into one's grasp

rơi vào tay ai đó

be loath to do sth

miễn cưỡng/không muốn làm: the pilots were loath to indiscriminate bombing; she was loath to talk about her past

polulace

quần chúng, dân chúng (more formal or literary than people or population, often carry neutral or slightly criticak tone): the government needs to listen to the demands of the populace; the dictator tried to control the general populace through fears

stave off sth

ngăn chặn/tránh/đẩy lùi: she tried to stave off covid by taking vitamins; to keep the populace motived and to stave off the effects of war weariness, the DRV maintained strong and effective proganda campaign throughout the conflict

to loathe

ghê tởm, ghét cay ghét đắng: the American pilots were loathed due to their discriminate bombing; he loathed the corruption

rhetoric

hùng biện: his speech was full of powerful rhetoric; lời hoa mĩ, tuyên truyền mị dân: propaganda rhetoric, the people were easily swayed by the party rhetoric and quickly volenteerjng to join the army

imperialist aggressor

kẻ xâm lược đế quốc

catch by surprise

bị bất ngờ, đánh úp: she was caught by surprised with the birthday party; the 1968 Tet offensive caught the U. S forces by surprise

offensive (n)

cuộc tổng tiến công, tấn công (n): the Vietcome 1968 offensive

infiltrator

kẻ xâm nhập: they caught the infiltrator near the base; vietcong's infiltrators lauched an attack on U. S embassy (VC cài người thâm nhập tấn công...)

chancery building

tòa nhà tòa án, đại sứ

compound (place)

khuôn viên; khu vực (được bảo vệ)

take toll on sth

gây thiệt hại/ảnh hưởng nghiêm trọng: the attack took a heavy toll on urban population

defiant

bất chấp, chống đối, bất tuân: the protestors remain defiant in the fact of police orders; she gave him a defiant look and refused to apologise

morale

tinh thần, nhuệ khí: the troop's morale had plummeted to the point where soldiers were openly ignoring the orders

deserting

bỏ trốn, đào ngũ: he was arrested for deserting and ignoring orders

status quo

tình trạng hiện tại

ho chi minh campaign

chiến dịch Hồ Chí Minh

smash through

đập tan/xuyên thủng: the attack smashed through the defense (xuyên thủng phòng tuyến)

defenses

phòng tuyến

decapitate

chém đầu; triệt hạ; làm tê liệt: the king was decapitated by the insurgents; the attack totally decapiated the U. S army; the company was capicitated followed by the arrest of the ceo

be scarred by sth

để lại vết sẹo: many were scarred for life by the war

render

tái hiện: render an image/scene; cung cấp: render assistance; đưa ra: render a verdict; khiến cho/gây ra: the accident rendered the car useless

domino theory

thuyết domino/ dây chuyền: the u. s involved in vietnam war because of the domina theory

rift

rạn nứt/chia rẽ/mâu thuẫn/vết nứt gãy: the misunderstanding furthered the rift in their relationship; an rift opened in the eartg after the quake

manifesto

tuyên ngôn

notion

khái niệm, ý niệm, ý tưởng (sudden): the notion that money brings hapiness is often challenged: she had that sudden notion to dye her hair blue; he had a romantuc notion of what war was like but the reality hit him hard

pundit

chuyên gia bình luận