街上全都是逃跑的难民
“The street was full of fleeing refugees.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Japanese planes started dropping bombs.”
街上 全都是 逃跑的难民
“The street was full of fleeing refugees.”
都不知道子弹是从哪儿来的 人走着走着忽然就倒了
“Not knowing where the bullets came from, people just suddenly fell as they walked.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Descriptions of wartime refugee flight evoke deeply ingrained collective memories of national struggle and trauma during the Anti-Japanese War.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
completely full of / entirely
Used in spoken Chinese to emphasize that an entire place or group consists exclusively of a certain thing.
refugees
A formal and spoken noun referring to displaced people fleeing war, famine, or disaster.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“have gone missing again recently.”
“when everyone in the country is free...”
“people became homeless.”
“You can't escape it,”
“While we were fleeing, we lost some luggage.”
“You can't get away.”