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Meaning of 投笔从戎

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tóu cóng róng (Trad.: 投筆從戎)
to lay down the pen and take up the sword (idiom); to join the military (esp. of educated person)
Example Sentences
1
Later, he gave up his study and became a famous artist in the new 4th army corps.
2
When he relinquished his pen for the sword, he must have thought fighting would be a bit of a YMCA outing to Kowloon.
3
便
I had been one of the first university students in Communist China. I studied English, but when the government called me up for service, I threw away my pen and donned a uniform.
4
广
Anti-Japanese War, the majority of students going through difficult, leading to this internal migration in Chongqing, adhere to school, many students bloody battlefield.
5
1914
便
Since 1914 investment sum from Rong Zhi day, general Zhang took his life and blood dedicated to the liberation cause of the chinese.