这十里八乡的 就没有一支游击队出来冒头
“In all the surrounding miles, not a single guerrilla force showed up.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
鬼子只派了十几个人 一挺机枪
“The Japanese only sent a dozen men and one machine gun.”
这 十里八乡 的 就没有 一支游击队 出来 冒头
“In all the surrounding miles, not a single guerrilla force showed up.”
都带着老人和孩子 跑到山沟里去了
“They all took the elderly and children and ran into the mountain gullies.”
“They are a bunch of cowards; nobody had the courage to resist such a tiny enemy force.”
Local guerrilla units were expected to protect their home villages; failing to engage small enemy forces was seen as a profound failure of nerve.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
the entire neighborhood; all the surrounding villages
A traditional four-character idiom describing an entire rural region encompassing nearby towns and villages.
step up; stick one's head out; show up publicly
Colloquial term meaning to take the initiative to show oneself or intervene, often under risk.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Young men from all the surrounding villages, none of them did not have their eyes on her.”
“He spent his entire youth in the countryside. He'll return to the city soon.”
“Everyone knows each other.”
“only ten li away from our forces!”
“This is guerrilla warfare. Do you all understand?”
“People all say the troupe is failing.”