tour of duty

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General Craddock will end his tour of duty later this year.
克拉多克今年晚些時候?qū)⒔Y(jié)束他在北約的任務(wù)。
As a junior naval officer, while on a short tour of duty at sea, he’d got hooked on the Dr Kay Scarpetta novels by Patricia Cornwell.
作為海軍下級軍官，在出勤海上的短暫旅途中，他都會沉迷于帕特麗夏·康威爾的《凱·斯卡皮特博士》。
But when the camp’s uniformed occupants, many on a third or fourth tour of duty there, discuss their dealings with the country’s leaders, the word that dominates their talk is tribe.
然而，第三，第四服役期的許多美軍軍官討論他們與伊拉克各派領(lǐng)袖的關(guān)系時，他們談話中使用最多的就是 “部族”。

He is believed to have had serious reservations about the upcoming tour of duty in a Muslim nation.
U.S.Army Sergeant Jeremy Tormala, on his second tour of duty in Iraq, thought the elections gave a good indication that Iraqi forces will be up to the task.

They have served tour after tour of duty in distant, different and difficult places.
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a period of time that someone, especially a soldier or an official, spends working in a foreign country

A soldier's tour of duty is a period of time when the soldier is involved in a particular duty or stationed in a particular place such as a war zone.