百姓有粮吃 比什么都重要
“Food for the people matters more than anything.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“We won the war, and now he wins hearts.”
百姓有粮吃 比什么都重要
“Food for the people matters more than anything.”
人人有份
“Everyone gets a share.”
“Stop obsessing over petty factional politics; keeping innocent people alive is all that truly matters.”
In traditional Chinese political philosophy, 'the people are the foundation of the state' (民为邦本) and 'food is heaven to the common folk' (民以食为天), meaning feeding the populace overrides personal credit or military glory.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
more important than anything else
A highly useful spoken pattern [X + 比什么都重要] used to state an ultimate, indisputable priority.
common people / ordinary citizens
Used in historical dramas or formal discussions of society to refer to the civilian populace.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“forcibly seizing grain from the people.”
“The people's surplus grain is not enough to fill their own stomachs.”
“They had nothing to eat.”
“Resolving the provision supply is our top priority now.”
“- Food! - Food! Hurry! Go look!”
“The people were starving and displaced.”