我在东京的防务工作会议上
“I was at the defense meeting in Dong Jing”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我在东京的防务工作会议上
“I was at the defense meeting in Dong Jing”
听到过这个事情
“and heard about this”
“I have high-level confirmation on this, so my source is completely reliable.”
Citing high-ranking conferences or central authority is a common tactic in formal Chinese bureaucracy to validate a point without dispute.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
defense work conference
A formal institutional term referring to high-level governmental or military strategy meetings.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“That they would come to bomb Dong Jing.”
“...bombed Dong Jing yesterday.”
“the Dong Jing Metropolitan Police Department”
“at the Tokyo envoy's request,”
“first bombing of Dong Jing”
“with personnel spread across Tokyo,”