今日下葬 连具尸首都没有
“Today at his burial, we don't even have his body,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
远在万里
“thousands of miles away.”
今日下葬 连具尸首都没有
“Today at his burial, we don't even have his body,”
名字都不敢刻在墓碑之上
“and we dare not carve his name on the tombstone too.”
“What a horrific, cruel fate they met—dying far away without even an intact body to bury.”
Traditional Chinese culture places supreme importance on preserving the body whole for burial; lacking a corpse prevents the spirit from finding peace and represents an ultimate tragedy.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to bury; interment
A formal term used specifically for the act of laying a deceased body into a grave.
not even have...
An emphatic construction used to stress an extreme lack or absence of a fundamental element.