最近这租界 满大街都是这无家可归的难民
“recently in the concession, the streets are full of homeless refugees.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我可听说
“I heard that”
最近这租界 满大街都是 这 无家可归 的 难民
“recently in the concession, the streets are full of homeless refugees.”
每天夜里都有饿死冻死的人
“Every night, there are people who starve and freeze to death.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
During the Second Sino-Japanese War, foreign concessions like those in Shanghai became overcrowded safe havens for millions of Chinese refugees escaping Japanese-occupied territories.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
the streets are packed with; everywhere you look
Use this spoken exaggeration pattern to emphasize that something or someone is ubiquitously present.
homeless
A formal four-character idiom frequently used in spoken and written Chinese to describe displaced people.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Since refugees are flocking to the concession, the restaurant is doing extremely well.”
“are running amok in the concession.”
“who brought your family to the concession. It was this insect”
“Your way of dealing with the Japanese in the concession,”
“You've been in the concession for a long time. Help me ask around”
“Father and I got separated at the entrance of the concession.”