War

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Chủ đề 15 là “war” nhé (sau chủ đề 14 thơ mộng;)):
1/ peacekeepers/peacekeeping forces: lực lượng gìn giữ hòa bình
2/ hostile forces: thế lực thù địch
3/ fierce fighting/competition: cuộc chiến khốc liệt/cạnh tranh khốc liệt
4/ call for ceasefire: kêu gọi ngừng bắn
5/ area of political unrest/tensions: khu vực chính trị bất ổn/căng thẳng
6/ negotiate a peace agreement: đàm phán hòa bình
7/ arms race: chạy đua vũ trang [MH]
-social tension/ arms race/ stockpile weapons
- civil war
- unrests, riots, and anarchy
- peacekeeping troops
- bitter enemies/ hostile forces --> engage in hostilities/ war break out --> firce
fighting
- minor incidents --> all-out war
- unprovoked attack --> invasion
- violence erupts --> violence escalates with a spate of attacks --> battle rage
-open fire

-go on the offensive/ make pre-emptive strike >< launch a counter-attack
----> collateral damage --> innocent victims : be caught in the crossfire
-terriost attack ---> suicide booming/attack
- withdraw troops
- uneasy truce/ fragile peace
- call fore ceasefire --> ceasefire comes into effect
-negotiate a peace agreement--> sign a peace treaty
--> bring about peace/ stability
---> restore peace/ order
--> keep the peace --> lasting peace
- disband an army
- lift a blockade
Idioms:
-bury the hatchet
- knight in shining armour
- open old wounds --> time doesnt fly!!!
- heal the wounds of war
- price war: war between companies, they try to reduce prices of what the sell, in
order to get the most customers. Chiến tranh về giá, chỉ dành cho công ty.

- this mean war (only spoken): say that you are ready to fight or agure about sth
- cold war: an unfriendly situation between 2 countries and may be led to a war.
another mean: a situation between US and Soviet Union after 2nd World War.
- war of nerves: an activity and attempt to make enemy afraid by wrong
information, army/military drill or military exercise ... chiến tranh tâm lý=>
collocation: army/military drill or military exercise = tập trận, diễn tập.
- war of words: (political) - a public argument between politicians.
- warrring factions/parties: a lot of diffirent national army fighting one nation. - tấn
công tổng lực, đánh hội đồng
- wage war = make war = start a war
- a war rages = a war continues in a very violent ways, become worst.
- the outbreak of war = the time when a was starts
- the horrors of war (good for writing)
- a nuclear war >< a conventional war
- a war criminal: example: Pon Pot, no more words ?
some synonyms of war (be careful when u use it)
- conflict: offent use in news report, eg: oil conflict
- fighting = war, but in order to kill someone
- hostilities = war (in formal writing, especially in report of Goverment) ----- cease
hostilities = stop a war
- warfare: use when talk about a kind and method of war, eg chemical, nuclear
warfare.
- battle: just an occasion when two armies fight.
- combat = battle or = the act of fighting
- action: just use in some phrases: ... kill sb in action.

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