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词汇 Vietcong
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Definition of Vietcong in English:

Vietcong

nounvjɛtˈkɒŋˌvjɛtˈkɔŋ
  • 1The Communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam which fought the South Vietnamese government forces 1954–75 with the support of the North Vietnamese army and opposed the South Vietnam and US forces in the Vietnam War.

    越共(由北越军队支持的越南共产党游击队成员,1954-1975年与南越政府军作战,并在越南战争中与南越和美军相对抗)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Despite massive US military and economic aid, his corrupt administration failed to win the fight against the Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces.
    • The parties were the two Communist delegations - North Vietnam and the Vietcong's Provisional Revolutionary Government - with whom he discussed the status of war prisoners.
    • He asked his forces to lay down their arms and called on the Vietcong to halt all hostilities.
    • Sure, we lost tens of thousands of troops, but the North Vietnamese Army and Vietcong lost hundreds of thousands more.
    • The weapons of choice for the Vietcong / North Vietnamese army were rockets and mortars.
    • Colombia's guerrillas have no big outside country to support them the way the Vietcong and North Vietnamese army had the Soviet Union and China.
    • The movement against the Vietnam War did include activists who preferred the Vietcong's flag to the American one.
    • And the Vietcong and North Vietnamese were a tougher, more tenacious enemy, he says.
    • Thang, a former member of the Vietcong, was arrested and imprisoned by the U.S.-backed Saigon regime during the 1954-1975 Vietnam War.
    • Although Hanoi had ordered the formation of Vietcong military units in the Mekong Delta as early as 1957, North Vietnamese leaders debated if the time was ripe to intervene more directly in the South.
    • Thailand, as an ally of the United States, sent forces to support South Vietnam in its war against North Vietnam and the insurgent Vietcong.
    • We were there, like Wilsonian idealists, to protect the South against the totalitarian regime of the North and its Vietcong allies.
    • But terrorists don't fight in phalanxes like ancient Spartans; they fight guerrilla style, like the Vietcong.
    • On the other hand, an increase in the U.S. responsibility for the war against the Vietcong and North Vietnam would slow resources from Johnson's ambitious and domestic program.
    • It took two years after the American withdrawal from Vietnam for Saigon to fall to the Vietcong.
    • That conflict did not end until the Vietcong occupied South Vietnam and unified the country under their communist banner.
    • But the graduated air attacks on North Vietnam did not dissuade the Vietcong.
    • Early on 31 January 1968, North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces attacked 27 of South Vietnam's 44 provincial capitals and scores of villages.
    • The Vietcong had popular support and were supplied by great powers.
    • The Vietcong (and their North Vietnamese allies) were thoroughly nasty thugs who ruled by fear.
    1. 1.1 A member of the Vietcong.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But there were reports during the Vietnam War there were some Americans who had deserted and were seen fighting with the Vietcong or North Vietnamese.
      • These numbers reminded me of the ever-growing numbers of supposedly killed Vietcong the US military was always reporting during that misguided war.

Origin

Vietnamese, literally 'Vietnamese Communist'.

Rhymes

along, belong, bong, chaise longue, Geelong, gong, Guangdong, Haiphong, Heilong, Hong Kong, Jong, King Kong, long, mah-jong, Mao Zedong, Mekong, nong, pong, prolong, sarong, Shillong, song, souchong, strong, thong, throng, tong, wrong

Definition of Vietcong in US English:

Vietcong

(also Viet Cong)
nounˌvyetˈkôNGˌvjɛtˈkɔŋ
  • A member of the communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam that fought the South Vietnamese government forces 1954–75 with the support of the North Vietnamese army and opposed the South Vietnamese and US forces in the Vietnam War.

    越共(由北越军队支持的越南共产党游击队成员,1954-1975年与南越政府军作战,并在越南战争中与南越和美军相对抗)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Early on 31 January 1968, North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces attacked 27 of South Vietnam's 44 provincial capitals and scores of villages.
    • The movement against the Vietnam War did include activists who preferred the Vietcong's flag to the American one.
    • The weapons of choice for the Vietcong / North Vietnamese army were rockets and mortars.
    • That conflict did not end until the Vietcong occupied South Vietnam and unified the country under their communist banner.
    • Despite massive US military and economic aid, his corrupt administration failed to win the fight against the Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces.
    • Thailand, as an ally of the United States, sent forces to support South Vietnam in its war against North Vietnam and the insurgent Vietcong.
    • Thang, a former member of the Vietcong, was arrested and imprisoned by the U.S.-backed Saigon regime during the 1954-1975 Vietnam War.
    • It took two years after the American withdrawal from Vietnam for Saigon to fall to the Vietcong.
    • And the Vietcong and North Vietnamese were a tougher, more tenacious enemy, he says.
    • The Vietcong (and their North Vietnamese allies) were thoroughly nasty thugs who ruled by fear.
    • But terrorists don't fight in phalanxes like ancient Spartans; they fight guerrilla style, like the Vietcong.
    • But the graduated air attacks on North Vietnam did not dissuade the Vietcong.
    • Colombia's guerrillas have no big outside country to support them the way the Vietcong and North Vietnamese army had the Soviet Union and China.
    • We were there, like Wilsonian idealists, to protect the South against the totalitarian regime of the North and its Vietcong allies.
    • Although Hanoi had ordered the formation of Vietcong military units in the Mekong Delta as early as 1957, North Vietnamese leaders debated if the time was ripe to intervene more directly in the South.
    • He asked his forces to lay down their arms and called on the Vietcong to halt all hostilities.
    • Sure, we lost tens of thousands of troops, but the North Vietnamese Army and Vietcong lost hundreds of thousands more.
    • The parties were the two Communist delegations - North Vietnam and the Vietcong's Provisional Revolutionary Government - with whom he discussed the status of war prisoners.
    • The Vietcong had popular support and were supplied by great powers.
    • On the other hand, an increase in the U.S. responsibility for the war against the Vietcong and North Vietnam would slow resources from Johnson's ambitious and domestic program.

Origin

Vietnamese, literally ‘Vietnamese Communist’.

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