叫你挨家挨户地去叫
“they told you to go door to door calling people out.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他们以办良民证的名义
“under the guise of issuing Good Citizen Certificates,”
叫你 挨家挨户地 去叫
“they told you to go door to door calling people out.”
结果你人叫出来了
“And once you called them out,”
“You blindly obeyed them and helped them round up innocent people.”
In 20th-century Chinese historical contexts (especially Japanese occupation), occupying forces used 'Good Citizen ID' registration to trap, round up, or execute resistance members.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
from door to door; household by household
An idiom functioning as an adverbial phrase describing an exhaustive house-by-house action.
Structural particle marking the preceding idiom as an adverbial modifier describing how the action was performed.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“and knocked on their doors one by one.”
“and get a full meal at any neighbor's door.”
“I'll go call him for you.”
“So you took me to your home for this reason?”
“If we go door to door, it'll take forever.”
“Call me if any neighbors need help.”