English Dictionary

nasho

名詞

オーストラリア英語 くだけた表現 不可算名詞 可算名詞

(chiefly Australia, informal, uncountable) Military national service, conscription. / (chiefly Australia, informal, countable) A person doing military national service.

日本語の意味

オーストラリア方言の非公式な名詞で、徴兵制度（軍事徴兵）を指す場合と、徴兵制度に服する人、すなわち徴兵義務者を指す場合がある。

Many veterans still talk about how nasho shaped their outlook on life.

多くの退役軍人は、徴兵がどのように彼らの人生観を形成したかを今でも語る。

意味（1）

(chiefly Australia, informal, uncountable) Military national service, conscription.

National Service was meant to turn boys into men and make the Yellow Peril think twice about moving south. It was universally known as Nasho – a typically Australian diminutive. […] But the most brutal fact about Nasho was the initial seventy-seven-day period of basic training, most of which took place at Ingleburn.

意味（2）

(chiefly Australia, informal, countable) A person doing military national service.

The white Rhodie ‘nashos’ (another derogatory term for national servicemen—this time from the Brit regulars), however, brought to the battalion a level of education that was previously unknown.

nashos （ plural ）