有些牧户家里牛羊 已经十不存一了
“Some households have barely any livestock left— less than one in ten remains.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
牧民牲畜 已经损失大半了
“the herdsmen have lost over half their livestock.”
有些牧户家里牛羊 已经 十不存一 了
“Some households have barely any livestock left— less than one in ten remains.”
紧接着 就是就医 孩子失学 等一系列
“Following that, medical care, schooling, and other safeguards”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Even in spoken reports, Chinese speakers often use classical idioms (Chengyu) to lend weight, gravity, and rhetorical impact to grim statistics.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
less than one in ten survives; decimated
A literary four-character idiom used to emphasize catastrophic losses in disasters, wars, or economic ruin.
Marks a completed change of state, emphasizing that the devastating loss has already become a grim reality.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“It's from the herdsmen. It's pretty reliable. Han,”
“The herdsmen's livestock matter, but we don't?”
“The herdsmen here no longer herd on horseback”