战时人员的伤亡很正常
“Casualties are normal in wartime.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
战时人员的伤亡很正常
“Casualties are normal in wartime.”
不要往心里去
“Don't take it to heart.”
“You did what you could, so don't carry this burden entirely on your shoulders.”
Chinese interpersonal comforting often relies on normalizing unfortunate outcomes rather than dwelling on vulnerable emotional processing.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
human casualties; casualties
A formal noun phrase frequently used in news, military, and emergency contexts.
quite normal; completely standard
Commonly used in conversational Chinese to normalize a difficult situation and alleviate stress.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Casualties on the battlefield”
“If he died in battle,”
“I saw too many dead bodies on the battlefield.”
“Sacrificing so many people,”
“died in that battle.”
“the casualties were heavy.”