什么 怎么能炸了关河呢
“What? How can we do that?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你们去炸了那关河吧 炸关河
“you blow up the Guanhe River? Blow up the Guanhe River?”
什么 怎么能 炸了 关河呢
“What? How can we do that?”
如今天气仍然寒冷
“It's still very cold.”
“Are you out of your mind? Doing that will cause utter disaster!”
Damming or detonating rivers in ancient Chinese warfare often led to massive civilian casualties and floods, making it an ethically contentious tactic.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
how can one possibly
Used rhetorically to protest an outrageous action or unreasonable demand.
Softens the grammatical question while intensifying the speaker's sense of bewilderment and protest.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“it will freeze again anytime soon.”
“and completed the plan to blow up the river.”
“Because they don't dare— they think something dangerous is down there. [III. Test Conclusions]”
“We told everyone we'd blow up the Guanhe River tomorrow.”
“Something's not right. Why haven't they actually detonated it yet?”
“Right, why did it explode?”