浙西多达二十五万名中国人
“up to 250,000 Chinese people in western Zhejiang”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
日本军人屠杀了
“Japanese soldiers slaughtered”
浙西多达二十五万名中国人
“up to 250,000 Chinese people in western Zhejiang”
在机场周边制造了大片的无人区
“and created vast no-man's-lands around the airports.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
References to wartime civilian casualties evoke profound collective trauma and solemnity in Chinese historical discourse.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
up to; as many as
Use before a large number to highlight an unexpectedly high or shocking quantity.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“over 1.3 million men,”
“tens of thousands of them.”
“to immigrate how many people?”
“Over ten thousand villagers died.”
“Everyone in Huizhou knows this.”
“the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign.”