enrolar

Aunque se hayan enrolado, no sabían a qué se enrolaban.	Even if they did sign up, they didn't know what they were signing up for.
Solo los pobres se enrolaban en el ejército, porque loveían como un medio de subsistencia.	Only the poor were considering a career in the armed forces.
A los 12 años observó cómo muchos jóvenes se enrolaban a las tropas del Ejército Nacional para marchar a la guerra.	At the age of 12 he witnessed a lot of young people enrolling themselves in the ranks of the National Army to go to war.
Durante la guerra de los Cien Años (1337-1453), los vascos se enrolaban en naves francesas, en virtud de varios tratados firmados con éstos.	During the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453), the Basques signed up with French ships, thanks to the different treaties they had signed together.
Para alguno de sus contemporáneos, Reuss no era otra cosa que un estafador: introdujo ritos irregulares en Alemania sin decirle a quienes se enrolaban en los mismos que eran irregulares, y sin especificar tampoco cuáles eran los nombres y objetivos de su heteróclita colección de órdenes.	To some of his contemporaries, Reuss was nothing more than a fraudster; he introduced irregular rites to Germany without telling those that joined them that they were irregular, or saying what the precise names and aims were of his rag-bag of Orders.