他也不能阻止我们去祭祖吧
“they can't stop us from visiting our ancestors' graves.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“No matter how rampant the Japanese are,”
他也不能阻止我们去祭祖吧
“they can't stop us from visiting our ancestors' graves.”
我的意思是
“What I mean is,”
“They surely won't dare interfere with something as sacred and basic as ancestor worship.”
Honoring ancestors is an inviolable moral duty in Chinese culture, often seen as an unassailable baseline that even oppressive authorities ought not cross.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
surely cannot ... right?
Combines negative capability with the soft modal particle 'ba' to ask for confirmation while seeking comfort.
to worship / pay respects to ancestors
A formal and traditional term referring to ancestral rituals, deeply rooted in family duties.
Softens the rhetorical assertion into a tentative query, inviting reassurance from the listener.
