cannon fodder

noun

1. 炮灰
   soldiers who are thought of not as people whose lives are important, but as material to be used up in war

1. N-UNCOUNT 炮灰;牺牲品
   If someone in authority regards people they are in charge of as cannon fodder, they do not care if these people are harmed or lost in the course of their work.
   1. The conscripts were treated as cannon fodder...
      应征入伍者被当做炮灰。
   2. Many cynical managers see employees as cannon fodder.
      许多自私自利的经理视员工如草芥。

1. The conscripts were treated as cannon fodder
   应征入伍者被当做炮灰。
2. Many cynical managers see employees as cannon fodder.
   许多自私自利的经理视员工如草芥。
3. In the eyes of warmongers, soldiers are nothing but cannon fodder.
   战争贩子们视士兵为炮灰。
4. This is especially helpful if you need a large number of thugs or cannon fodder.
   如果需要大量暴徒或者士兵，这样做尤其有帮助。
5. Soldiers! Dont give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, treat you like cattle and use you as cannon fodder.
   士兵们，不要替那些畜生们卖命，他们鄙视你们，奴役你们，操纵你们的生命，告诉你们该做什么，想什么，感觉什么，他们把你们当牛一样训练为的只是拿你们去当炮灰。
6. The team had no intention of being cannon fodder when they played the champions, and were determined to win.
   这支队伍参赛时无意充当炮灰，他们志在必得。
7. Nearly useless against cannon fodder!
   对付炮灰部队几乎是无用的。
8. Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder.
   他们训练你们，供养你们，像牲口似的对待你们，把你们视如炮灰。
9. Who drill you-diet you-treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder.
   他们强迫你们去操练，限制你们地伙食&把你们当牲口看待，把你们推上疆场充任炮灰。
10. Given a long spear and shield, but little training or armour, they are only of use in defensive roles or as cannon fodder.
    他们装备长矛和盾牌，无论训练和盔甲都十分低劣，通常用于防御阵地充当炮灰。
11. Long dismissed as "cannon fodder," as one immunologist puts it, the white blood cells known as basophils have been enjoying a renaissance.
    嗜碱性细胞长久以来被当作炮灰而遭到忽略，而如今，如同一名免疫学家所讲，迎来了它的复兴。
12. It is tempting to mock this as a pointlessly circular argument: more cannon fodder means more cannons, which means more need for cannon fodder.
    人们禁不住会嘲笑这种毫无意义的循环论证：炮弹更多就意味着大炮更多，进而意味着对炮弹的需求也就更高。
13. Its people are cannon fodder in wars with bordering states.
    它的人民充当了同邻国交战时的炮灰。
14. To be clear, bonuses are easy political cannon fodder but only up to a point.
    说的明白些，奖金不过是现成的政治挡箭牌但仅在一定程度上如此。
15. Use only with own cannon fodder.
    当你有炮灰支援的时候才使用高斯炮。
16. Your Primary, Uncle, father, elder brother was forced to enlist, to serve as cannon fodder to attack Iran, the invasion and occupation of Kuwait.
    你们的伯、叔、父、兄被迫入伍，充当炮灰去攻打伊朗、侵占科威特。
17. Barracks: build Rocketmen and riflemen, to a ratio that you like. I prefer three riflemen to six Rocketmen ratios, but I generally don't use much infantry, mostly as cannon fodder.
    兵营：建造火箭兵和机枪兵，按照你喜欢的比例建造。我喜欢三个机枪兵搭配六个火箭兵的比例，但是我通常不大用步兵，他们大多是作炮灰。

noun

1. soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire

   Synonym:    fodderfresh fish