如果确乎抗战可以救国
“If fighting the war can truly save the country,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Fighting the war can save the country, and so can peace.”
如果 确乎抗战 可以 救国
“If fighting the war can truly save the country,”
那我们可以义无反顾
“we can go forward without hesitation,”
“I am not convinced armed struggle works, but prove it to me and I will follow.”
Debates over methods of saving the nation reflect complex ideological divisions during modern China's wartime crises.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
really; indeed; truly
A slightly literary and archaic adverb used to emphasize certainty or verify a proposition.
save the nation
A core historical phrase associated with patriotic struggles and wartime survival in modern Chinese history.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Workers, peasants, soldiers, students, and merchants, let's all come to save the nation.”
“the survival of the nation is at stake. Please contribute to the war of resistance.”
“Although he was forced to agree to our party's anti-Japanese proposition”