Name: 高級英語口語詞彙--戰爭與武器｜與Michelle一起提高你的英語口語水準。 (Advanced English Speaking Vocabulary - War & Weapons | Improve your Spoken English with Michelle)
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Did you just get scared? Don't worry, this is just a toy gun. But why do I have it in

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my hand? Because in this lesson we are learning vocabulary related to warand weapons. So

stay with me my name is Michelle and we are going to start the lesson now.

So guys the first word that we have with us is 'Arsenal'. Have you heard this word

before? So Arsenal is a collection of weapons where you have a lot of weapons you've got

bombs and guns etc. etc. So a collection of weapons is called an Arsenal and you use it

while someone is fighting a war when a country is fighting a war. So a collection of weapons

and if you want to use it in a sentence, you could say that the country's arsenal depleted

due to the economic crisis which means that the country's collection of weapons has depleted

and maybe they do not have the most recent and updated versions of the weapons.

Okay now we look at the next word that we have with us and this is a 'surgical strike'.

So now we have looked at what is a collection of weapons called. Now we are going to look

at strike what are the different kind of strikes which means what are the different ways of

attacking another country. So strike means to attack right. So a surgical strike is okay

now let's think about it in a medical term whenever there's a surgery the doctor has

to be very careful and very precise he has to use every, every instrument in his hand,

every equipment in his hand very carefully he cannot put a mark or a cut anywhere else

except where it's required the same way in a surgical strike the bombing and the attack

has to be very specific in the targeted area otherwise the people the regular public and

not the fighters will be harmed, right? So if we do not want to harm the regular public

or the civilians then we need to have a surgical strike which means, which is very precise

or a targeted strike or a targeted attack where the general public is not hurt. But

how do we do a surgical strike? So a surgical strike is usually done through precision bombing,

right? So precision means very careful, very specific and perfect, all right? So if this

is the area that's targeted the bombing will only happen here and the rest of the area

will not be attacked where people are living so this is possibly the fighting area where

the bombing will happen. So precision bombing is done through aircrafts and it's an example

of a surgical strike so bombing that is done through the aircraft which is very, very specific.

So specific bombing and bombing means to throw bombs all right and it's in an area. So specific

bombing  right and if you want to use it in a sentence

you could say that the Prime Minister declared precision bombing against the warring country.

Okay now we look at the next one that we have and this is an 'invasion'. So we use 'an'

with it the article because it starts with a vowel, all right? So an invasion is an attack

okay an attack on another country on the enemy country in their territory. So let's say that

a particular country wants to attack another country so they are invading that country.

It's better to say invading rather than saying attacking. All right so invasion means to

attack the enemy country or the enemy territory which means region. An invasion is a noun

but when we say that so and so country attacked another country or so and so country invaded

another country then invaded is the verb but invasion is the noun. Do you ever feel that

someone has invaded your private life? If someone over hears your conversation, do you

feel invaded? We can also use it in English when you feel that someone is indulging in

your private life with you a bit too much that's when you can say I felt invaded by

his comment which means that they made a very private comment or personal comment to you

All right so now we look at the next one which is a 'preemptive strike'. So like I told

you earlier strike means attack so like surgical strike preemptive strike is also a way of

attacking. Now preemptive strike is done to prevent another country or another group of

fighters to attack us, okay? So if you do not want a group of fighters or a group of

Army you don't know what an army not a group of Army and army to attack you then you will

have a preemptive strike which means that you will prevent them from attacking you.

So even before they could attack you you'll have a preemptive strike on them. So to prevent

them prevent is very similar to this word preemptive. So to prevent an attack

and to use it in a sentence you could say that the government declared a preemptive

strike against the rebels. So even before the rebels could attack the government declared

a preemptive strike which means they prevented them from attacking.

Now with this we come to the next one which is an 'ambush'. So ambush is a surprise

attack it's not pronounced ambush, its ambush so an ambush is a surprise attack. So a surprise

attack is when you know, you do not know that a group of fighters or rebels are going to

attack you, but they attack you so that's what we call ambush and in a sentence you

could say that the five soldiers were killed when their bus was ambushed. Which means that

when their bus was surprisely attacked. So you can use it as a noun and as well as a

So like we have ambush which is a surprise attack there's a technique to ambush and that

is a 'guerrilla attack' so do you know who guerrillas are of course we know we find

them in jungles and how do they attack you won't even know when a guerrilla come and

jump on you and grab you from the back and probably squeeze you. That's how they attack

so like ambush is a surprise attack guerrilla attack is a technique to ambush which means

that this is how you attack. So people who ambush the attack like a guerrilla which means

they attack in a hidden manner in a way that you won't even know. Sudden attack. So this

is what a guerrilla attack is and usually these are forces that are not official forces

in a country so in a country there are certain group of people that are fighting against

the government and they're not official army they are you know self-organized forces and

they attack the government because they want to remove the government. So if they want

to remove the government they will attack the army forces or the official forces suddenly

right? So that's where you can use guerrilla attack and if you want to use it in a sentence

you could say that the soldiers were killed by a guerrilla attack or there was a guerrilla

attack in the mountains. Okay now there's also another term that comes from this war

term and this is actually a marketing term which is guerrilla marketing. Now this is

a special kind of marketing when a set of people have been given a small budget and

they have to market their products using that small budget. So what they do is they go to

spots like malls, parks and other open places like streets and they suddenly market their

products so that they can have access to a larger public and they know they do not have

to spend too much money. So that's guerilla marketing when they market suddenly as a surprise

and they can also have access to a huge audience. So you can use it either in business or war

Okay now we look at the next one now this is 'retrograde option operation' which

means retro means to go backwards like you heard retro music which means older music,

okay? So retro means backwards and retrograde means to move a step backwards. So whenever

an army decides not to fight the war it retrogrades which means that it moves back. It's also

called as retreating. So you could use it in a sentence by saying that the army decided

to retrograde in order to stop the combat. Which means in order to stop the fight. So

combat means a fight or a war okay so that's how you can use retrograde which means to

Now with this we come to the next word that we have and that is a 'friendly fire'

which I was doing in the beginning of the lesson. So friendly fire is not so friendly

also obviously there are soldiers that are hurt at the end of fire. Fire means attacking

someone using guns, okay? Now friendly fire is when a particular army okay certain members

or certain soldiers of an army attack the soldiers of their own army that's what a friendly

fire is. So attacking the soldiers of your own army. And if you want to use it in a sentence

you could say that the rates of friendly fire have been increasing over this campaign. Or