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an insurgency against sb/sth
insurgency 是可数名词，复数形式为 insurgencies；表示“针对某政府/政权的叛乱”时，用 against 引出对象。
The armed group staged an insurgency against the colonial government.
该武装组织对殖民政府发动了一场叛乱。
叛乱；暴动；起义
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叛乱；暴动；起义
an organized rebellion against an established government, using subversion and armed conflict
The armed group staged an insurgency against the colonial government.
该武装组织对殖民政府发动了一场叛乱。
叛乱；起义；叛乱状态
rebellion; revolt; the state of being insurgent
The government struggled to contain the insurgency in the northern provinces.
政府艰难地遏制北部省份的叛乱。
The army was sent to put down the insurgency before it spread to the capital.
军队被派去平定叛乱，以免其蔓延到首都。
Several insurgencies in the region were fueled by economic inequality.
该地区几起叛乱因经济不平等而加剧。
insurgency 是可数名词，复数形式为 insurgencies；表示“针对某政府/政权的叛乱”时，用 against 引出对象。
The armed group staged an insurgency against the colonial government.
该武装组织对殖民政府发动了一场叛乱。
launch an insurgency 是“动词+宾语”结构，launch 表示“发起、发动”。
The group launched an insurgency shortly after the election.
该组织在选举后不久发动了叛乱。
crush/suppress an insurgency 是“动词+宾语”结构，表示“镇压叛乱”。
Government troops were sent to crush the insurgency in the north.
政府军被派去镇压北部的叛乱。
主语 the insurgency 后接 spread、grow 等不及物动词，描述叛乱的发展变化。
The insurgency spread quickly across the border region.
叛乱迅速蔓延到边境地区。
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Many people joined the insurgency movement.
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Many people joined the insurgent movement.
insurgency 是名词，意为“叛乱状态、暴动”，不能直接修饰名词；表示“叛乱的”应用形容词 insurgent。因此“叛乱运动”要说 insurgent movement，而不是 insurgency movement。
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The government faced several insurgency last year.
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The government faced several insurgencies last year.
insurgency 是可数名词，复数形式为 insurgencies。前面有 several 等表示复数的词时，必须使用复数形式，不能说 several insurgency。
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发动叛乱
The rebels launched an insurgency against the military government.
叛军向军政府发动了叛乱。
镇压叛乱
The army was sent to quell the insurgency in the northern province.
军队被派往北方省份镇压叛乱。
武装叛乱
The region has been torn apart by armed insurgency for years.
该地区多年来因武装叛乱而四分五裂。
叛乱运动
The insurgency movement gained support among the rural population.
这场叛乱运动得到了农村人口的支持。
助长叛乱
The government's brutal tactics only fuelled the insurgency.
政府的残暴手段只会加剧叛乱。
反对政府的叛乱
The insurgency against the government showed no signs of ending.
反对政府的叛乱没有结束的迹象。
这场叛乱已处于最后的垂死挣扎之中。
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said this in 2005 about the Iraq insurgency; the statement became famous after the fighting continued for years.
美国副总统迪克·切尼在2005年谈到伊拉克叛乱时说了这句话；由于战斗又持续了数年，这句话变得广为人知。
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联想：叛乱如汹涌浪潮(surge)般扑来，in加surge加cy就成了insurgency。
语域：neutral 常见场景：军事冲突报道、政治新闻 insurgency 通常出现在正式或中性的新闻报道、政治军事论述中，指有组织地试图推翻现政府的武装行动；日常口语中较少使用。
与 insurgency 真正押韵的是 urgency 和 emergency，都以 /ɜːdʒənsi/ 收尾。contingency 和 agency 也以 -gency 结尾，但重读元音不同（/ɪ/、/eɪ/），并不押韵；surge 只与 insurgency 的重读部分 /sɜːdʒ/ 相同，不是整词押韵。
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