tour of duty

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General Craddock will end his tour of duty later this year.
尅拉多尅今年晚些時候將結束他在北約的任務。
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.
作爲海軍下級軍官，在出勤海上的短暫旅途中，他都會沉迷於帕特麗夏·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尅各派領袖的關系時，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.