他们都不想打仗
“None of them wanted to fight,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I think of the innocent people of Lin'an.”
他们都 不想 打仗
“None of them wanted to fight,”
但却因为战争
“but because of the war,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Traditional Chinese historical ethos places deep moral emphasis on the plight of common people who suffer innocently from geopolitical conflicts engineered by the ruling elite.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to fight a war / to engage in battle
Standard everyday spoken verb-object compound for fighting or being in a war.
none of them want to
A common negation structure using '都' to emphasize complete consensus across a collective group.